Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides

• Autorzy: Karpierz M. A. , Nguyen Q. V.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Recently, there have been shown that in planar liquid crystalline waveguides light beams can form spatial soliton due to the reorientational nonlinearity. Such self-trapped beams require only a few tens of mW of light power and their stability is controlled, by the state of light polarisation. In this paper, the collision of previously observed solitons are analysedd theoretically. Obtained results show that analysed self-trapped beams became unstable due to interaction with otheir light beams.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

liquid crystalline waveguides; spatial solitons

• Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Elektryków Polskich ; Polska Akademia Nauk ; Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego
• Czasopismo: Opto-Electronics Review
• Rocznik: 2002
• Tom: Vol. 10, No. 1
• Strony: 59--62
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 11 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Karpierz M. A.

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, 75 Koszykowa Str., 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

autor

Nguyen Q. V.

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, 75 Koszykowa Str., 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

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