Pattern forming instability induced by light in pure and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals
arXiv:cond-mat/0207101 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.66.031707
Abstract
We study theoretically the instabilities induced by a linearly polarized ordinary light wave incident at a small oblique angle on a thin layer of homeotropically oriented nematic liquid crystal with special emphasis on the dye-doped case. The spatially periodic Hopf bifurcation that occurs as the secondary instability after the stationary Freedericksz transition is analyzed.
8 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX, accepted to Phys. Rev. E