Budagovsky Ivan, Kuznetsov Aleksey, Shvetsov Sergey, Smayev Mikhail, Zolot'ko Alexander
Optics Department, Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr., 53, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, 1-2 Leninskiye Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia.
Microsc Microanal. 2023 Sep 29;29(5):1639-1649. doi: 10.1093/micmic/ozad079.
Light-induced director field deformation of a nematic liquid crystal in the field of an obliquely incident laser beam is experimentally studied with aberrational self-action and polarization microscopy. Each of the methods has features associated with the geometry of the light interaction with the director. The combination of methods significantly expands the possibilities of reconstructing the light-induced nonlinear phase shift profile and the director field deformation.