Dynamic switching of circularly polarized light through selective reflection in a thermotropic chiral nematic liquid crystal phase

Authors

Benedict San Jose Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University
Jialin Yan Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University
Satoshi Matsushita Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University
Kazuo Akagi Department of Polymer Chemistry, Kyoto University

Abstract

We prepared a circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) switchable cell by placing together a thermotropic chiral nematic liquid crystal (N*-LC) cell together with a CPL emitting film from lyotropic chiral di-substituted polyacetylene. In this paper, we present the dynamic switching of CPL from the selective reflection of CPL in a thermotropic N*-LC phase. N*-LCs are excellent organic photonic crystals for the generation of CPL due to their ease of synthesis and external stimuli responsiveness.

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Issue

2013: Proceedings of the 31st Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Congress

Article ID

SPP2013-2B-4

Section

Optics and Signal Processing

Published

2013-10-23

How to Cite

[1]

B San Jose, J Yan, S Matsushita, and K Akagi, Dynamic switching of circularly polarized light through selective reflection in a thermotropic chiral nematic liquid crystal phase, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 31, SPP2013-2B-4 (2013). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP2013-2B-4.