Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides

Miroslaw A. Karpierz; Quang V. Nguyen

doi:10.1117/12.472184

27 June 2002 Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides

Miroslaw A. Karpierz, Quang V. Nguyen

Proceedings Volume 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472184
Event: XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals, Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, 2001, Zakopane, Poland

Abstract

Recently, there have been shown that in planar liquid crystalline waveguides light beams can form spatial soliton due to the reorientational nonlinearity. Such self-trapped beams require only a few tens of mW of light power and their stability is controlled by state of the light polarization. In this paper, the collisions of previously observed solitons are analyzed theoretically. Obtained results show that analyzed self-trapped beams became unstable due to the interaction with other light beams.

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Miroslaw A. Karpierz and Quang V. Nguyen "Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides", Proc. SPIE 4759, XIV Conference on Liquid Crystals: Chemistry, Physics, and Applications, (27 June 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.472184

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