Title :
Sub-milliwatt dissipative nematicons and spontaneous light emission in dye-doped nematic liquid crystals
Author :
Piccardi, Armando ; Alberucci, Alessandro ; Assanto, Gaetano
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Univ. Roma Tre, Rome, Italy
Abstract :
Blue light self-confinement in active dye-doped nematic liquid crystals is reported, demonstrating trapping of the emitted red light in dissipative spatial solitons formed by all-optical reorientation.
Keywords :
nematic liquid crystals; optical solitons; spontaneous emission; all-optical reorientation; blue light self-confinement; dissipative spatial solitons; dye-doped nematic liquid crystals; emitted red light trapping; spontaneous light emission; sub-milliwatt dissipative nematicons;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el.2010.3478
