Effect of electric field and temperature on holographic scattering from holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

Author(s)
Mostafa Ellabban, Irena Drevensek-Olenik, Martin Fally, Hana Ursic
Abstract

The influence of an external electric field or temperature on holographic scattering from holographic polymer-dispersed liquid crystals

(H-PDLCs) was investigated experimentally. The auto-generated parasitic gratings are affected by an externally applied electric field in a

similar manner as the elementary grating. We find that the threshold voltage, switching-on and -off times are independent on the grating

vector. On the contrary, the suppression level of the refractive-index modulation is proportional to the spatial frequency. Heating of the

sample reduces the strength of parasitic gratings analogously to the case of an external electric field.

Organisation(s)
Physics of Functional Materials
External organisation(s)
University of Ljubljana
Journal
Optical Materials
Volume
29
Pages
1416-1422
No. of pages
7
ISSN
0925-3467
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optmat.2006.06.014
Publication date
2007
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103008 Experimental physics
Portal url
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/effect-of-electric-field-and-temperature-on-holographic-scattering-from-holographic-polymerdispersed-liquid-crystals(7af181c4-d69d-4cc3-9eca-68aac48106ef).html