Volume 174, 2014

Dynamic amplification of light signals in photorefractive ferroelectric liquid crystalline mixtures

Abstract

The photorefractive effect in photoconductive ferroelectric liquid crystals that contain photoconductive chiral compounds was investigated. Terthiophene compounds with chiral structures were chosen as the photoconductive chiral compounds, and they were mixed with an achiral smectic C liquid crystal. The mixtures exhibit the ferroelectric chiral smectic C phase. The photorefractivity of the mixtures was investigated by two-beam coupling experiments. It was found that the ferroelectric liquid crystals containing the photoconductive chiral compound exhibit a large gain coefficient of over 1200 cm−1 and a fast response time of 1 ms. Real-time dynamic amplification of an optical image signal of over 30 fps using the photorefractive ferroelectric liquid crystal was demonstrated.

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Apr 2014
Accepted
04 Jun 2014
First published
04 Jun 2014

Faraday Discuss., 2014,174, 203-218

Author version available

Dynamic amplification of light signals in photorefractive ferroelectric liquid crystalline mixtures

T. Sasaki, S. Kajikawa and Y. Naka, Faraday Discuss., 2014, 174, 203 DOI: 10.1039/C4FD00068D

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