Discrete propagation and spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Optics Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1530-1532

  Fratalocchi, Andrea ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Brzda̧kiewicz, Kasia A ^b   Karpierz, Mirek A ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEAR INFRARED (NIR) RADIATION; PLANAR WAVEGUIDES; REORIENTATIONAL RESPONSES; WAVEGUIDE ARRAYS;

DIFFRACTION; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER BEAMS; LIGHT PROPAGATION; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 3142697945     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.29.001530     Document Type: Article

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