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Nematicon–nematicon interactions in a medium with tunable nonlinearity and fixed nonlocality |
Optics Letters, Vol. 36, Issue 13, pp. 2566-2568 (2011)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.002566
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Abstract
We investigate the attractive interaction between spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals with a tunable nonlinearity and a constant nonlocality. The experimental study, carried out by controlling the orientation of the optic axis via the electro-optic response, shows how the interactions depend on reorientation, in excellent agreement with a model accounting for the anisotropic nature of the dielectric.
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OCIS Codes
(160.3710) Materials : Liquid crystals
(190.4420) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, transverse effects in
(190.5940) Nonlinear optics : Self-action effects
(260.5950) Physical optics : Self-focusing
(190.6135) Nonlinear optics : Spatial solitons
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: April 18, 2011
Revised Manuscript: May 16, 2011
Manuscript Accepted: May 17, 2011
Published: July 1, 2011
Citation
Michal Kwasny, Armando Piccardi, Alessandro Alberucci, Marco Peccianti, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Miroslaw A. Karpierz, and Gaetano Assanto, "Nematicon–nematicon interactions in a medium with tunable nonlinearity and fixed nonlocality," Opt. Lett. 36, 2566-2568 (2011)
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