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  • Title: Electrically Controlled Diffraction Grating in Azo Dye-Doped Liquid Crystals.
    Author: Tien CL, Lin RJ, Kang CC, Huang BY, Kuo CT, Huang SY.
    Journal: Polymers (Basel); 2019 Jun 16; 11(6):. PubMed ID: 31208143.
    Abstract:
    This research applies the non-linear effect of azo dye-doped liquid crystal materials to develop a small, simple, and adjustable beam-splitting component with grating-like electrodes. Due to the dielectric anisotropy and optical birefringence of nematic liquid crystals, the director of the liquid crystal molecules can be reoriented by applying external electric fields, causing a periodic distribution of refractive indices and resulting in a diffraction phenomenon when a linearly polarized light is introduced. The study also discusses the difference in the refractive index (Δn), the concentration of azo dye, and the rising constant depending on the diffraction signals. The experimental results show that first-order diffraction efficiency can reach ~18% with 0.5 wt % azo dye (DR-1) doped in the nematic liquid crystals.
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