Title :
Discrete spatial solitons, breathers and steering in liquid crystal waveguide arrays
Author :
Fratalocchi, A. ; Brzdakiewicz, K. ; Karpierz, M. ; Assanto, Gaetano
Author_Institution :
Nonlinear Opt. & Optoelectronics Lab., Rome Univ., Italy
Abstract :
The paper reports on the generation of discrete solitons, breathers and power-controlled beam steering in a novel voltage-controlled array of weakly-coupled waveguides in nematic liquid crystals (NLC).
Keywords :
beam steering; nematic liquid crystals; optical couplers; optical solitons; optical waveguides; beam steering; breathers; discrete spatial solitons; nematic liquid crystals; weakly-coupled waveguide arrays; Liquid crystals; Liquid waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical planar waveguides; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8557-8
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363502
