Photorefractive effects in ZnO nanorod doped liquid crystal cell

Yubing Guo, Yonghai Chen*, Ying Xiang, Shengchun Qu, Zhanguo Wang

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Abstract

In a forced light scattering experiment, after the diffraction efficiency arrives to a stable state, both direct current (DC) voltage and two writing beams are turned off, and then by reapplication of the DC voltage we observed a peak.We provide an explanation based on periodically changed anchoring energy and also discuss the evolution of diffraction efficiency under different grating constants, laser polarization, and the direction of the optical axis of a liquid crystal cell. Experiment results show that photo-introduced charge density is nearly in proportion to the intensity of writing beams.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1101-1104
Number of pages4
JournalApplied Optics
Volume50
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Mar 2011
Externally publishedYes

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