Abstract

Recently, Hsiung et al.¹ conducted a study of laser-induced director axis reorientation in the presence of a strong bias dc magnetic field. We present a detailed study of the reorientational effect in the absence of any bias field. The dynamics of the response is solved using the Erickson- Leslie approach (ignoring flow and moment of inertia effect) for the case of linearly polarized light interacting with a homeotropically aligned nematic film (Fig. 1).

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