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Published on: September 20, 2017
Periodic and aperiodic liquid crystal-polymer composite structures realized via spatial light modulator direct
M Infusino1, A De Luca, V Barna
1LICRYL (Liquid Crystals Laboratory, IPCF-CNR), and Center of Excellence CEMIF.CAL Department of Physics University of Calabria, 87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS), Italy. melissa.infusino@fis.unical.it
Abstract:
In this work we present the first realization and characterization of two-dimensional periodic and aperiodic POLICRYPS (Polymer Liquid Crystal Polymer Slices) structures, obtained by means of a single-beam holographic technique exploiting a high resolution spatial light modulator (SLM). A first investigation shows that the gratings, operating in the Raman Nath regime, exhibit a morphology and a electro-optical behavior that are typical of the POLICRYPS gratings realized by two-beam interference holography.
