Continuous rotation of a cholesteric liquid crystalline droplet by a circularly polarized optical tweezers

Yuta Tamura; Yasuyuki Kimura

doi:10.1117/12.2269410

18 April 2017 Continuous rotation of a cholesteric liquid crystalline droplet by a circularly polarized optical tweezers

Yuta Tamura, Yasuyuki Kimura

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Proceedings Volume 10252, Optical Manipulation Conference; 102520W (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2269410
Event: SPIE Technologies and Applications of Structured Light, 2017, Yokohama, Japan

Abstract

We studied the opto-mechanical response of droplets composed of cholesteric liquid crystal (ChLC) to a circularly polarized optical tweezers. Although the alignment of LC molecular within a droplet depends on the relative ratio of the droplet diameter d to the helical pitch p, the optically induced rotation was found to be asymmetric to the direction of circularly polarized light irrespective to the inner molecular alignment. We studied the rotation of the droplets with various sizes, helical pitch (strength of chirality) and different chirality. In the case of d/p ~ 1, the direction of the rotation was simply determined by chirality of ChLC and the rotation was also observed for linearly polarized light, which has already been reported by Yang et al.

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Yuta Tamura and Yasuyuki Kimura "Continuous rotation of a cholesteric liquid crystalline droplet by a circularly polarized optical tweezers", Proc. SPIE 10252, Optical Manipulation Conference, 102520W (18 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2269410

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