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

Authors

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