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Orientational photorefractive holograms in porphyrin:Zn-doped nematic liquid crystals
Eun Ju Kim1, Hye Ri Yang, Sang Jo Lee
1Department of Physics, Yeungnam University, Kyongsan 712-749, Korea.
Optics Express
|October 30, 2008
Abstract:
We investigated the diffraction properties of dynamic holograms recorded in porphyrin:Zn doped nematic liquid crystals (NLCs) under the influence of an applied dc electric field for various conditions of the grating period, the writing beam intensity and the applied electric field. We also derived an analytic expression for diffraction efficiency from NLCs material equations and torque balance equations and compared the experimental results with the theory, revealing excellent agreement.

