Counterpropagating nematicons in bias-free liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3258-3263

  Izdebskaya, Yana V ^a   Shvedov, Vlad G ^a   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw Z ^a   Belic, Milivoj ^b   Assanto, Gaetano ^c   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY AT QATAR   (Qatar)

^c ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; SOLITONS;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; DYNAMIC INSTABILITY; INPUT POWER; NEMATICONS; RELATIVE DISTANCES; SPATIAL ENTANGLEMENT; SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS; TIME-DEPENDENT; VECTOR SOLITON;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 77149164112     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003258     Document Type: Article

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