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Some features of second harmonic generation in the nematic liquid crystal 5CB in the pulsed-periodic electric field

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Second harmonic generation (SHG) induced by an external pulsed-periodic electric field in a 5CB nematic liquid crystal (NLC) is investigated. Deformation of the NLC under this field is analyzed, and a possibility of its accumulation is established. The observed SHG features are due to the domains with quite different director orientations emerging in the NLC.

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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, ul. Joliot-Curie 6, Dubna, Moscow oblast, 141980, Russia

    A. A. Ayriyan & E. A. Ayrjan

  2. Prokhorov General Physics Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 38, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    A. A. Egorov, I. A. Maslyanitsyn & V. D. Shigorin

  3. Georgi Nadjakov Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tzarigradsko ch. 72, Sofia, 1784, Bulgaria

    G. B. Hadjichristov, Y. G. Marinov, A. G. Petrov & L. Popova

  4. Technical University of Kosice, ul. Letna 9, Kosice, 04200, Slovak Republic

    J. Pribis

  5. Department of Applied Science and Technology (DISAT), Physics Institute of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, CNISM, Politecnico di Torino, c. Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129, Torino, Italy

    A. Strigazzi

  6. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Kashirskoe sh. 31, Moscow, 115409, Russia

    A. Strigazzi

  7. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 53, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. I. Torgova

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Ayriyan, A.A., Ayrjan, E.A., Egorov, A.A. et al. Some features of second harmonic generation in the nematic liquid crystal 5CB in the pulsed-periodic electric field. Phys. Wave Phen. 24, 259–267 (2016). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1541308X16040026

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