Nonlinear optical response of smectic structure glasses based on cobalt alkanoates

Abstract

Nonlinear-optical response of metal-alkanoates anisotropic glasses based on cobalt-alkanoate was studied using method of the dynamic holography. Fundamental optical (refractive index n and absorption coefficient α) and nonlinear-optical (nonlinear susceptibilities χ(3) and polarizabilities γNL) parameters of the mesomorphic glasses based on cobalt-alkanoates can be tuned via varying chain length anion (interlayer distance of homologous lines) and\or by changing of the cation composition (exploiting binary or ternary systems).