Abstract
Abstract The excitation of half leaky guided optical modes to characterize fully the optical tensor profile in a thin liquid crystal layer has been used to evaluate the effect of rubbed polyimide aligning layers on the alignment of a nematic liquid crystal. A cell fabricated with rubbed polyimide alignment surfaces was studied at a wavelength of 632.8 nm. The liquid crystalline layer is sandwiched between a high refractive index top glass plate and a low refractive index glass substrate. Angular dependent reflectivities are recorded using a coupling prism and matching fluid with the same index as the top glass plate. Careful fitting of the predictions from multilayer optics theory to the observed angle dependent polarization conversion and reflectivity data yields the director profile within the liquid crystal layer in great detail.
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