All-optical switching and logic gating with spatial solitons in liquid crystals

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 81, Issue 18, 2002, Pages 3335-3337

  Peccianti, Marco ^a   Conti, Claudio ^a   Assanto, Gaetano ^a   De Luca, Antonio ^b   Umeton, Cesare ^b  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALL-OPTICAL SWITCHING; LIGHT BEAM; NONLOCAL; NOR GATES; SPATIAL SOLITONS; X-JUNCTION;

CRYSTALS; SOLITONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79956014245     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1519101     Document Type: Article

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