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New non-reorientational, non-thermal optical nonlinear effect in MBBA

It is widely known the anular-shaped beam divergence produced by the optical reorientation induced in nematics by a Gaussian beam. Recent works have found a new effect in colored liquid crystal (MBBA, Phase V,...) showing a similar spatial distribution. A new set of random-oscillating rings appears for light intensities over a certain threshold. The beam divergence due to that effect is greater than the molecular reorientation induced one

Criterio gráfico para la determinación de la existencia de biestabilidad óptica en interfases no lineales

Basándose en la propuesta de Kaplan sobre la posibilidad de obtener conmutación biestable entre un campo homogéneo y otro inhomogéneo transmitidos a un semiespacio no lineal cuando una onda plana incide desde un semiespacio lineal, los autores desarrolla un método gráfico similar al que se utiliza en el estudio de BO en resonadores no lineales

Estudio experimental del comportamiento no lineal de una interfase entre vidrio y MBBA nemático y análisis de la factibilidad de commutación biestable en interfases no lineales negativas

Se realiza un estudio experimental del comportamiento de una interfase entre un mnedio lineal y otro no lineal, basándose en la propuesta de Kaplan de Biestables Ópticos

Optical nonlinearities and blstability in a glass-liquid crystal interface

As reported previously, an interface between linear and liquid crystal media shows some nonlinear properties that can be employed in the analysis of this type of optical bistable device

New non-reorientational optical nonlinear effect in MBBA

A new effect producing self-focusing of light in a nematic MBBA film is reported. This effect produces a static diffraction pattern composed of circular rings which is different from the ones arising from self-focusing previously reported. The influence of the cell thickness, the optical intensity, and the wavelength is studied. Once the nematic is distorted by a láser beam, the effect produced in other light beam passing through the modified región is independent of its polarization. This isotropic behavior shows that a molecular reorientation has not been produced. The origin of this effect seems to be the same of that of the effect which produces a randomly oscillating diffraction pattern previously reported by our group. Some possible causes such as thermal indexing, convective instabilities and self-induced transparency are discussed

Optical Nonlinearities at the Interface between Glass and Liquid Crystal

In this paper, the optical behavior of a nonlinear interface is studied. The nonlinear medium has been a nematic liquid crystal, namely MBBA, and the nonlinear one, glasses of different types (F-10 and F-2) depending on the experimental needs. The anchoring forces at the boundary have been found to inhibit the action of the evanescent field in the case of total internal reflection. Most of observed nonlinearities are due to thermal effects. As a consequence, liquid crystals do not seem to be good candidates for total internal reflection optical bistability

Optical nonlinearities at the interface between liquid crystal and glass: behavior of the transmitted beam.

During the past years a great interest has been devoted to the study of possible applications of non-linear interfaces, mainly in the field of Optical Bistability. Several papers have been published in this field, and some of them dealing with liquid crystals as non-linear material

African Linguistics in Central and Eastern Europe, and in the Nordic Countries

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