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The features of reflection of the linearly polarized light beams at the interface between two regions of a nematic liquid crystal (LC) with the orthogonal director orientation have been analyzed. The relationship between light beam propagation in a LC material and polarization of laser radiation has been established. Rotation of the polarization plane of a light beam has been found for the radiation introduced through the free surface “LC—air” deformed due to the capillarity effect. The total internal reflection effect has been demonstrated experimentally together with the possibility for special separation of the orthogonally polarized light beams at the interface of two mesophases.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Komar, M.A. Kurochkina, A.A. Melnikova, A.I. Stankevich, A.L. Tolstik, 2011, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoĭ Fiziki, 2011, Vol. 37, No. 15, pp. 26–32.
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Komar, A.A., Kurochkina, M.A., Melnikova, A.A. et al. Polarization separation of light beams at the interface of two mesophases. Tech. Phys. Lett. 37, 704–706 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063785011080062
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