Cook G, Glushchenko AV, Reshetnyak V, Griffith AT, Saleh MA, Evans DR. Nanoparticle doped organic-inorganic hybrid photorefractives.
Opt Express 2008;
16:4015-4022. [PMID:
18542499 DOI:
10.1364/oe.16.004015]
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Abstract
The gain characteristics of liquid crystal photorefractive cells doped with ferroelectric nanoparticles has been measured. The liquid crystal two beam coupling gain is found to reverse in sign and increase in magnitude through the addition of ferroelectric BaTiO(3) nanoparticles, yielding gain coefficients up to 1100 cm(-3) in the Bragg regime. We attribute the novel effects of gain reversal and magnitude increase to interactions between the ferroelectric particles' spontaneous polarization and the local liquid crystal flexopolarization.
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