Soliton bending and routing induced by interaction with curved surfaces in nematic liquid crystals

Optics Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1692-1694

  Izdebskaya, Yana V ^a   Shvedov, Vladlen G ^a   Desyatnikov, Anton S ^a   Krolikowski, Wieslaw ^a   Kivshar, Yuri S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVED SURFACES; DIELECTRIC SURFACE; EFFICIENT ROUTING; SOLITON BEAMS; SPATIAL OPTICAL SOLITONS; TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTIONS; WALK-OFF;

CRYSTALS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; PHASE INTERFACES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SOLITONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 77954948114     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.35.001692     Document Type: Article

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