▎ 摘　　要

The enhanced photorefractive and third-order nonlinear optical properties of graphene/graphene oxide (GO)-doped polymer-dispersed liquid crystals (PDLC) were studied by two-beam coupling and z-scan methods. A higher interior electric field will be produced according to the photorefractive performance because of the high electrical conductivity of graphene. The doping of graphene also improved the uniformity of alignments of 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) in PDLC because the rod-shaped liquid crystals tended to align along the surface of sheet structures and the alternate positions of the hexagons on the graphene surface matched well with the alkyl chains of 5CB molecules. Higher third-order nonlinear refraction and absorption coefficient can be attributed to the geometric relationship between graphene and 5CB. The GO-doped samples exhibited higher photorefractive efficiency, third-order nonlinear refraction, and absorption coefficient than undoped PDLC samples, but lower values than the graphene-doped samples because of the nonconducting nature of GO and/or weaker surface matching.