Title

High-Efficiency Energy Transfer Due To Stimulated Orientational Scattering Of Light In Nematic Liquid Crystals

Abstract

The saturation stage of stimulated orientational scattering (SOS) of light in thick planarly aligned nematic-liquid-crystal layers was observed and studied experimentally. The power efficiency of o-wave pump conversion exceeded 90%. Both saturation of transmitted pump power and cascading of SOS were observed. The latter indicated that, for higher than ∼50% conversion efficiencies, inverse conversion of the scattered e-polarized signal into wide-angle speckle, o-polarized background started to take place, leading to partial depletion of the primarily scattered e wave. Results were in good qualitative agreement with conventional SOS theory. © 2001 Optical Society of America.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volume

18

Issue

8

Number of Pages

1203-1205

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.18.001203

Socpus ID

0037515028 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0037515028

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