Title :
Nematicons in Liquid Crystal Light Valves
Author :
Bortolozzo, U. ; Piccardi, A. ; Residori, S. ; Assanto, G.
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Inst. Non Lineaire de Nice, Valbonne, France
Abstract :
Conspicuous efforts have been devoted to exploit spatial solitons for signal processing. In nematic liquid crystals steering of spatial solitons or nematicons has been reported in planar cells. In this communication, we demonstrate excitation and tunable propagation of spatial solitons in photoconductive light valves filled with nematic liquid crystals (LCLV). We show that nematicons can be effectively launched and deviated in LCLV, combining self-guidance with parallel nonlinear optical processing.
Keywords :
light valves; nematic liquid crystals; optical solitons; signal processing; liquid crystal light valves; nematic liquid crystals steering; nematicons; parallel nonlinear optical processing; photoconductive light valves; signal processing; spatial solitons; tunable propagation; Laser beams; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical signal processing; Photoconductivity; Polarization; Solitons; Valves; Voltage;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4079-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4080-1
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194831
