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  • Proceedings of the International Quantum Electronics Conference and Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim 2011
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2011),
  • paper C1096

Spatial solitons carrying phase singularities in nematic liquid crystals

Yana V. Izdebskaya, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assanto, and Yuri Kivshar

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Abstract

We demonstrate self-trapped laser beams carrying optical vortices in nematic liquid crystals. We experimentally observe astigmatic transformations of vortex beams into spiralling dipole azimuthons accompanied by a nontrivial power-dependent charge-flipping of on-axis phase dislocations.

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