Light-confinement, accessible spatial solitons and their interactions via nonlocal reorientation in nematic liquid crystals

Author

Assanto, Gaetano ; Peccianti, Marco ; Conti, Claudio

Author_Institution

Nat. Inst. for the Phys. of Matter, Terza Univ. of Rome, Italy

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

211

Abstract

Summary form only given. Following Shen (1997), we report on the demonstration of accessible solitons in pre-oriented nematic liquid crystals. We show how the (temporally and) spatially nonlocal nonlinearity mediates soliton formation and soliton-soliton attraction, fusion and interlacing of both excitation and signal light. Moreover, we introduce a novel and general model which unifies local and nonlocal solitary behavior with the aid of coupled differential equations.

Keywords

molecular reorientation; nematic liquid crystals; optical solitons; partial differential equations; accessible spatial solitons; coupled differential equations; light confinement; nematic liquid crystals; nonlocal reorientation; saturable molecular reorientation; soliton formation; soliton-soliton attraction; spatially nonlocal nonlinearity; temporally nonlocal nonlinearity; Crystalline materials; Liquid crystal displays; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical materials; Optical propagation; Optical signal processing; Optical solitons; Physics; Ultraviolet sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2002. LEOS 2002. The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7500-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2002.1134002

Filename

1134002