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Liquid crystals (LC’s) are useful materials in laser applications in devices such as wave plates and circular polarizers. Despite their remarkable resistance to incident laser energy, under certain conditions, these materials can still experience laser induced damage. The mechanism of the laser-induced damage in LC’s is not well understood, which makes it necessary to study the materials on the molecular level to explain the nature of laser damage. Density functional theory (DFT) is a computational chemistry method that uses a simplified version of the Schrödinger equation to calculate a molecule’s electron density at its ground state. Real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) builds off the ground state calculation to model electron density as a function of time, including its response to an external electric field or a laser pulse. The work described here utilized RT-TDDFT to model the effects of increased laser intensity on the LC molecule 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB). Each simulation included a single 5CB molecule in the gas-phase exposed to individual, 1053 nm, 22 fs Gaussian laser pulses of increasing incident energy each time. It was hypothesized that as the incident laser intensity was increased a threshold would be found in which the molecule’s electron density would be irreversibly altered after the pulse had passed through the LC material. The results of this experiment show that as incident laser intensity increased the peak magnitude of the induced dipole moment also increased which corresponds to the relationship between intensity and electric field strength. Increased differences in the electron density as intensity increased, shown by the initial and final electron density maps, also align with the hypothesis and may be an indication of the molecule reaching its damage threshold.