Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals, ornematicons, can be generated in bulk through a reorientational nonlinearity. We investigate nematicon interactions, showing their behavior related to the inherent nonlocal response of the medium. Solving for both the mechanics and the optics of molecular reorientation in nematic liquid crystals with a nonlinear paraxial version of a Beam Propagator, we demonstrate both in plane and out of plane interactions, disclosing soliton crossing and spiraling.

Spiraling and cyclic dynamics of nematicons / Andrea, Fratalocchi; Marco, Peccianti; Conti, Claudio; G., Assanto. - In: MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS. - ISSN 1542-1406. - STAMPA. - 421:1(2004), pp. 197-207. (Intervento presentato al convegno 10th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals tenutosi a Aussois, FRANCE nel SEP 13-19, 2003) [10.1080/15421400490501798].

Spiraling and cyclic dynamics of nematicons

CONTI, CLAUDIO;
2004

Abstract

Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals, ornematicons, can be generated in bulk through a reorientational nonlinearity. We investigate nematicon interactions, showing their behavior related to the inherent nonlocal response of the medium. Solving for both the mechanics and the optics of molecular reorientation in nematic liquid crystals with a nonlinear paraxial version of a Beam Propagator, we demonstrate both in plane and out of plane interactions, disclosing soliton crossing and spiraling.
2004
light self-localization; liquid crystals; nematicons; nonlinear optics; nonlinear waves; soliton interactions; solitons; spatial solitons; spiraling
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Spiraling and cyclic dynamics of nematicons / Andrea, Fratalocchi; Marco, Peccianti; Conti, Claudio; G., Assanto. - In: MOLECULAR CRYSTALS AND LIQUID CRYSTALS. - ISSN 1542-1406. - STAMPA. - 421:1(2004), pp. 197-207. (Intervento presentato al convegno 10th International Topical Meeting on Optics of Liquid Crystals tenutosi a Aussois, FRANCE nel SEP 13-19, 2003) [10.1080/15421400490501798].
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