Nematicon-nematicon interactions in a medium with tunable nonlinearity and fixed nonlocality

Optics Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2566-2568

  Kwasny, Michal ^a,b   Piccardi, Armando ^a   Alberucci, Alessandro ^a   Peccianti, Marco ^a,c   Kaczmarek, Malgosia ^d   Karpierz, Miroslaw A ^b   Assanto, Gaetano ^a  

^a Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab NooEL   (Italy)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRO-OPTIC RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; NON-LINEARITY; NONLOCALITIES; OPTIC AXIS; SPATIAL SOLITONS;

SOLITONS;

NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 79959970385     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: 15394794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.36.002566     Document Type: Article

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