Abstract
We investigate light propagation through materials with both linear and circular anisotropy and find the relation of the amplitude and polarization transfer functions to the four anisotropic characteristics: linear circular birefringence, and linear and circular dichroism. We determine these four characteristics of anisotropic samples by measuring the output intensity and polarization corresponding to different input polarization azimuths and fitting the theoretical and experimental results. In our experiments we have used films of side-chain azobenzene polyesters in which optical anisotropy had been previously induced on illumination with elliptically polarized light.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1643-1650 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Journal of Modern Optics |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sep 1997 |
| Externally published | Yes |