Nonspecular total internal reflection of spatial solitons at the interface between highly birefringent media

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 98, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   Dyadyusha, Andriy ^b   Kaczmarek, Malgosia ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFLECTION;

INCIDENCE ANGLE; INDEX MISMATCH; INTERNAL REFLECTION; NONLOCAL SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 33947248958     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.113902     Document Type: Article

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