Measurement of the self-induced waveguide of a solitonlike optical beam in a nematic liquid crystal

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1424-1431

  Hutsebaut, Xavier ^a   Cambournac, Cyril ^a   Haelterman, Marc ^a   Beeckman, Jeroen ^b   Neyts, Kristiaan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT PROPAGATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR ORIENTATION; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; SOLITONS;

SELF INDUCED WAVEGUIDE; SOLITONLIKE OPTICAL BEAM PROPAGATION;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 22944472368     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.22.001424     Document Type: Article

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