ISSN:
1077-3118
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
Notes:
We report a novel optical spectroscopy, time-resolved optical waveguide spectroscopy. This technique was developed in order to investigate the transient behavior of the dielectric constants of thin dielectric medium, e.g., changes of the refractive indices induced by an external trigger such as light, electric field, etc. Optical guided waves propagate in a thin dielectric medium whose optical properties, in particular film thickness and anisotropic dielectric tensor diagonals in molecular and laboratory coordinates, can be evaluated with high accuracy. We employed this technique to a nematic liquid crystal (5CB) as a thin dielectric medium, and molecular reorientation on the switching process was observed through the recording of transient waveguide patterns. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.117164
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