화학공학소재연구정보센터
Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals Science and Technology. Section A. Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.299, 79-84, 1997
The Chirality Effect on the Optical Nonlinearity of Smectic C-Asterisk Liquid-Crystals
We have studied the chirality effect on the optical nonlinearity of ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) by means of the second-harmonic generation (SHG). A chiral agent of CB15 is added to a commercial FLC of CS1017 for controlling the optical activity in terms of chirality. From the electric-field dependence of the SHG profiles, it is found that the chirality contributes to both the second-order nonlinearity and third-order one which couples with a static electric field.