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Novel glass-forming ferroelectric liquid-crystal material of high second-order nonlinearity

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We report on a novel ferroelectric liquid-crystal material with an exceptionally large and stable nonlinear optical response. The material shows a phase transition from theSmC* mesophase to the glassy state near room temperature. This allowed us to state-freeze a stable nonlinear optically active configuration close to room temperature at 10° C for one day. The stored orientations can easily be forced to relax back by heating slightly above the glass-transition temperature. The material and the freezing process have been characterized in detail by analyzing the frequency-doubling process of the fundamental radiation of a Nd: YAG laser in the liquid crystal. Under favourable conditions, we obtained second-order susceptibilities as large as χzzz = 0.5 pm/V.

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  1. Laser-Laboratorium Göttingen e.V., Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg 1, D-37077, Göttingen, Germany

    M. Loddoch & G. Marowsky

  2. Iwan-N.-Stranski-Institut, Technische Universität Berlin, D-10623, Berlin, Germany

    H. Schmid & G. Heppke

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Loddoch, M., Marowsky, G., Schmid, H. et al. Novel glass-forming ferroelectric liquid-crystal material of high second-order nonlinearity. Appl. Phys. B 59, 591–595 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01081178

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