| 118. | Anisotropic photonic gratings formed in photocrosslinkable polymer liquid crystals, H. Ono, A. Emoto and N. Kawatsuki, J. Appl. Phys. 100 (2006) 013522. |
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Abstract |
| We demonstrated anisotropic photonic gratings in photocross-linkable polymer liquid crystals irradiated with three mutually coherent beams. Both birefringence and surface relief modulation were induced by reorientation and/or migration of mesogenic molecules. Anisotropy and optical properties of photonic gratings were strongly dependent on the combination of polarization states of the three beams. Atomic force microscopy revealed that topological patterns of gratings formed according to interference patterns of the three beams and diffraction efficiencies of recorded gratings depended on polarization direction of the linearly polarized probe beam. These diffraction properties including efficiency and optical anisotropy could be explained by the theory based on Jones calculus. |