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| Author(s): |
Fabio Luiz Sant'Anna Cuppo
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2002-11-29 |
| Examining board members: |
Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto;
Isabel Cristina dos Santos Carvalho;
Luiz Roberto Evangelista;
Paulo Alberto Nussenzveig;
Sérgio Carlos Zilio
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| Advisor: | Antonio Martins Figueiredo Neto |
| Abstract | |
This work has been focused on the study of the optical nonlinear response of lyotropic liquid crystals in the isotropic and nematic calamitic phases and in the neighborhood of the nematic calamitic isotropic and nematic calamitic nematic biaxial phase transitions. The basic technique we used is Z-scan. The results obtained indicated that the nonlinear effect in lyotropic liquid crystals is related to the presence of micelles in the mixture and the micelle anisotropy has influence on the observed response. Is has also been observed that the presence of ferrofluid in the mixture, even in small quantities, causes a large raise in the sample optical absorption and consequently in the nonlinear response. The behavior of the nonlinear refractive index (n IND.2) as function of temperature in the neighborhood of the nematic calamitic to nematic biaxial phase transition shows as expressive n IND.2 raise. This behavior has not been observed in the neighborhood of the nematic calamitic to isotropic phase transition. (AU) | |