Abstract
We demonstrate soliton-mediated alignment of gold nanorods in colloidal suspensions, leading to polarization-dependent transmission. We discuss orientation-enhanced birefringence and dichroism due to disorder-to-order transition of nanorods resulting from the torque exerted by the soliton beam.
© 2017 Optical Society of America
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