Flexoelectro-optic effect and two-beam energy exchange in a hybrid photorefractive cholesteric cell with a short-pitch horizontal helix

Physical Review. E
V Yu ReshetnyakDean R Evans

Abstract

We develop a theoretical model to describe two-beam energy exchange in a hybrid photorefractive cholesteric cell with a short-pitch helix oriented parallel to the cell substrates (so-called uniformly lying helix configuration). Weak and strong light beams incident on the hybrid cell interfere and induce a periodic space-charge field in the photorefractive substrate of the cell, which penetrates into the cholesteric liquid crystal (LC). Due to the flexoelectro-optic effect an interaction of the photorefractive field with the LC flexopolarization causes the spatially periodic modulation of the helix axis in the plane parallel to the cell substrates. Coupling of a weak signal beam with a strong pump beam at the LC permittivity grating, induced by the periodically tilted helix axis, leads to the energy gain of the weak signal beam. Dependence of the signal beam gain coefficient on the parameters of the short-pitch cholesteric LC is studied.

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