Anisotropic polymers with photostationary molecules: theoretical approach and practical applications

Richard Birenheide; Joachim Heinz Wendorff

doi:10.1117/12.18025

1 April 1990 Anisotropic polymers with photostationary molecules: theoretical approach and practical applications

Richard Birenheide, Joachim Heinz Wendorff

Proceedings Volume 1213, Photopolymer Device Physics, Chemistry, and Applications; (1990) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18025
Event: OE/LASE '90, 1990, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

A theoretical treatment of the behaviour of liquid crystalline side chain polymers containing photostationary mesogenic units such as azobenzene is given in the presented paper. The phenomenological theory gives both the dynamic and static characteristics of the material when irradiated with polarized light. It can be shown that the optical storage effect in these materials can be described as a photooptical induced rotational diffusion. The theory is able to describe phenomena which has been found earlier by our group.

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Richard Birenheide and Joachim Heinz Wendorff "Anisotropic polymers with photostationary molecules: theoretical approach and practical applications", Proc. SPIE 1213, Photopolymer Device Physics, Chemistry, and Applications, (1 April 1990); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.18025

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