Routing of anisotropic spatial solitons and modulational instability in liquid crystals

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 733-737

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Conti, Claudio ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   De Luca, Antonio ^b   Umeton, Cesare ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT MODULATION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STEERING;

NON-DIFFRACTING BEAMS; NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL SURGICAL TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL TWEEZERS;

SOLITONS;

PHYSICS;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEPOLARIZATION; DIFFRACTION; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EXCITATION; EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING; LIGHT; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MOLECULE; MONITORING; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPTICS; PARAMETER; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHYSICS; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 10844243681     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03101     Document Type: Article

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