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Features of magneto-optics of dichroic cholesteric liquid crystals
A.H. Gevorgyan 1, S.S. Golik 1,2

1 Far Eastern Federal University, 690922, Vladivostok, Russia, Russky Island, Ajax, 10,
2 Institute of Automation and Control Processes, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
690041, Vladivostok, Russia, st. Radio 5

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DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-928

Pages: 839-847.

Full text of article: Russian language.

Abstract:
In this work, magneto-optical properties of a dichroic cholesteric liquid-crystal layer are theoretically investigated at large values of the magneto-optical parameter. Features of all solutions of the dispersion equation are studied in detail. Peculiarities of the reflection, transmission, absorption spectra and the influence of dielectric boundaries on them are investigated. Specific properties of the localization of light and magnetically induced transparency in dichroic cholesteric liquid crystals are considered. The study of the light localization features showed that the presence of an external magnetic field, as well as the presence of dielectric boundaries, led to the appearance of oscillations in the dependence of the intensity of the layer-confined energy on the coordinate of the axis directed along the cholesteric axis. A strong influence of the refractive index of isotropic half-spaces adjacent to a dichroic cholesteric liquid crystal layer on the optics of the layer under consideration is shown. In particular, magnetically induced transparency and diffraction transmission appear only at certain intervals of the refractive index of isotropic half-spaces.

Keywords:
photonics, magneto-optical materials, liquid crystals, Weyl semimetal, diffraction.

Citation:
Gevorgyan AH, Golik SS. Features of magneto-optics of dichroic cholesteric liquid crystals. Computer Optics 2021; 45(6): 839-847. DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-928.

Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by the RF Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State assignment, project FZNS-2020-003 No. 0657-2020-0003.

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