Journal
LIQUID CRYSTALS
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 1079-1090Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02678292.2018.1556821
Keywords
Cholesteric liquid crystals; photonic band gap; light localisation; total internal reflection
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Oblique propagation of light through a planar layer of a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) is solved by Ambartsumian's modified layer addition method. Two cases are considered, namely, the case when dielectric boundaries have a minimum influence on light transmission and the case when the CLC layer is in a vacuum. It is shown that in the first case a total internal reflection can happen for the fast eigen-mode at large incidence angles. New important features of light reflection (transmission) spectra, photonic density of states and accumulated energy density in the CLC layer are studied. The light localisation peculiarities in the CLC layer at oblique incidence is investigated too. It is shown that the light localisation for both the long-wavelength edge mode and the short-wavelength edge mode changes differently when the incidence angle changes. The obtained results can be used in the design of low-threshold lasers, in solar cell systems, in chiral photonics, in systems strongly absorbing light at certain wavelengths and when designing systems with absorption suppression created on the base of absorbing media, etc.
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