Investigation of characteristics of waveguide channels system formed in PDLC with inhomogeneity of the amplitude-phase distribution of forming field

Abstract

This work presents the results of modeling the influence of amplitude, phase and amplitude-phase heterogeneities of the forming field on the spatial distribution of the refractive index profile and, accordingly, the mode composition of radiation capable of propagating in waveguides formed by the holographic method in the photopolymer-liquid crystalline compositions. The spatial distribution of the refractive index is found by solving the system of kinetic equations. The mode composition of the radiation is determined by solving the dispersion equation for TE-modes.