Spatial solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystals

Spatial solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystals

We demonstrate experimentally the existence of spatial solitons in a chiral nematic liquid crystal planar cell. Due to the optical reorientational nonlinearity there were created for a light power of a few milliwatts. The low absorption allows us to observe soliton propagation distance over lengths...

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Hauptverfasser: Laudyn, U.A., Kwasny, M., Karpierz, M.A.
Format: Tagungsbericht
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Birefringence
Glass
Liquid crystal devices
Liquid crystals
Nonlinear optical devices
Nonlinear optics
Optical polarization
Optical propagation
Optical solitons
Photonic crystals
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Zusammenfassung:We demonstrate experimentally the existence of spatial solitons in a chiral nematic liquid crystal planar cell. Due to the optical reorientational nonlinearity there were created for a light power of a few milliwatts. The low absorption allows us to observe soliton propagation distance over lengths of a few millimeters.
DOI:10.1109/ICTONMW.2008.4773066