Polymer-stabilized liquid crystal for tunable microlens applications
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Vladimir V. Presnyakov; Karen Asatryan; Tigran Galstian; Amir Tork
- Source
- Optics express. 10(17)
- Subject
- chemistry.chemical_classification
Microlens
Materials science
business.industry
Physics::Optics
Polymer
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
Transverse plane
Optics
chemistry
Liquid crystal
Electric field
Optoelectronics
business
Refractive index
Intensity (heat transfer)
Beam (structure)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1094-4087
We investigate the electro-optical properties of polymer stabilized nematic liquid crystals produced by in situ photopolymerization technique using Gaussian laser beam. The distribution of refractive index in such structure under the action of a homogeneous electric field reveals a non-homogeneous lens-like character, approximately reproducing the intensity transverse distribution in the photopolymerizing beam.