Properties of spatial solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystal cells

Authors

  • Urszula Anna Laudyn Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics
  • Michał Kwaśny Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics
  • Mirosław Andrzej Karpierz Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Physics

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v1i4.72

Abstract

In this work we demonstrate the properties of spatial solitary waves in chiral nematic liquid crystalline film. Such self-trapped beams were created due to the optical reorientation nonlinearity for the light power of a few tenths of milliwats at the distances of a few millimeters. Additionally, it is shown that the direction of propagation of such nematicons can be modified by changing the light beam input polarization as well as by applying an external electric field.

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2009-12-31

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U. A. Laudyn, M. Kwaśny, and M. A. Karpierz, “Properties of spatial solitons in chiral nematic liquid crystal cells”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 1, no. 4, pp. pp. 157–159, Dec. 2009.

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Vol. 1 No. 4 (2009)

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