Thermal optical non-linearity of nematic mesophase enhanced by gold nanoparticles – an experimental and numerical investigation
Thermal optical non-linearity of nematic mesophase enhanced by gold nanoparticles – an experimental and numerical investigation
In this work the mechanisms leading to the enhancement of optical nonlinearity of nematic liquid crystalline material through localized heating by doping the liquid crystals (LCs) with gold nanoparticles (GNPs) is investigated. We present some experimental and theoretical results on the effect of voltage and nanoparticle concentration on the nonlinear response of the GNP-LC suspensions. The optical nonlinearity of these systems is characterized by diffraction measurements and the second order nonlinear refractive index, n2 is used to compare systems with different configurations and operating conditions. A theoretical model based on heat diffusion that takes into account the intensity and finite size of the incident beam, the nanoparticle concentration dependent absorbance of the GNP doped LC systems and the presence of bounding substrates is developed and validated. We use the model to discuss possibilities of enhancing further the optical nonlinearity.
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Kurochkin, Oleksandr
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28 April 2016
Kurochkin, Oleksandr
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Murugesan, Yogesh K.
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Bennett, Thomas P.
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Reznikov, Yuri
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Tang, B.J.
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Mehl, Georg H.
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Kurochkin, Oleksandr, Murugesan, Yogesh K., Bennett, Thomas P., D'Alessandro, Giampaolo, Reznikov, Yuri, Tang, B.J., Mehl, Georg H. and Kaczmarek, Malgosia
(2016)
Thermal optical non-linearity of nematic mesophase enhanced by gold nanoparticles – an experimental and numerical investigation.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 18 (16), .
(doi:10.1039/C6CP00116E).
Abstract
In this work the mechanisms leading to the enhancement of optical nonlinearity of nematic liquid crystalline material through localized heating by doping the liquid crystals (LCs) with gold nanoparticles (GNPs) is investigated. We present some experimental and theoretical results on the effect of voltage and nanoparticle concentration on the nonlinear response of the GNP-LC suspensions. The optical nonlinearity of these systems is characterized by diffraction measurements and the second order nonlinear refractive index, n2 is used to compare systems with different configurations and operating conditions. A theoretical model based on heat diffusion that takes into account the intensity and finite size of the incident beam, the nanoparticle concentration dependent absorbance of the GNP doped LC systems and the presence of bounding substrates is developed and validated. We use the model to discuss possibilities of enhancing further the optical nonlinearity.
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Accepted/In Press date: 25 February 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 1 March 2016
Published date: 28 April 2016
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Quantum, Light & Matter Group, Applied Mathematics
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/388825
ISSN: 1463-9076
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Oleksandr Kurochkin
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Yogesh K. Murugesan
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Thomas P. Bennett
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Yuri Reznikov
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B.J. Tang
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Georg H. Mehl
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