Abstract

Fully three-dimensional spatial solitons in bulk nematic liquid crystals form self-consistent waveguides that are able to confine a weak, collinear copolarized signal at different wavelengths and with large trapping angles. We use a milliwatt cw source to generate a soliton and, by angular steering of the soliton, spatially readdress the guided signal.

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Incoherent spatial solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals

Marco Peccianti and Gaetano Assanto
Opt. Lett. 26(22) 1791-1793 (2001)

Nonlocal spatial soliton interactions in nematic liquid crystals

Marco Peccianti, Katarzyna A. Brzdąkiewicz, and Gaetano Assanto
Opt. Lett. 27(16) 1460-1462 (2002)

Discrete propagation and spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Andrea Fratalocchi, Gaetano Assanto, Kasia A. Brzdąkiewicz, and Mirek A. Karpierz
Opt. Lett. 29(13) 1530-1532 (2004)

Self-healing generation of spatial solitons in liquid crystals

A. Alberucci, M. Peccianti, G. Assanto, G. Coschignano, A. De Luca, and C. Umeton
Opt. Lett. 30(11) 1381-1383 (2005)

Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals: from bulk to discrete

G. Assanto, A. Fratalocchi, and M. Peccianti
Opt. Express 15(8) 5248-5259 (2007)