Abstract
Abstract A significant increase of the divergence and appearance of a fringe system has been observed by illuminating of MBBA (p-n-methoxybenzilidene-p-butylaniline) and OCB (octyl-cyano-biphenyl) nematic liquid crystalline samples with a collimated beam of an argon ion laser. The dependence of this effect on laser power, beam polarization, and angle of incidence has been studied in homeopolar and planar sandwich-like cells of 50-150 μm thickness, in the nematic phase. At a homeopolar cell of MBBA (150 μm thickness), at normal incidence a threshold laser power of 45 m W was found. The phenomena can be explained as deformation of the orientation by the Fredericks effect due to light fields. The observations are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions including an estimation of the laser power threshold.
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