Nematicons across interfaces: Anomalous refraction and reflection of solitons in liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 8021-8028

  Peccianti, Marco ^a,b   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT REFLECTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; REFRACTION;

ANOMALOUS REFRACTION; NEMATICONS;

SOLITONS;

EID: 34347249234     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.008021     Document Type: Article

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