Counterpropagating nematicons in bias-free liquid crystals. Academic Article

abstract

• We experimentally investigate the interaction of two counter-propagating spatial optical solitons (nematicons) in bias-free nematic liquid crystals. We demonstrate the existence of vector solitons composed of two nematicons propagating in opposite directions and analyze their stability versus relative distance and input power.We observe the dynamic instability of two counterpropagating nematicons in the form of time-dependent splitting and spatial entanglement.

authors

• Belic, Milivoj
• Krolikowski, Wieslaw

published proceedings

• Opt Express

author list (cited authors)

• Izdebskaya, Y. V., Shvedov, V. G., Desyatnikov, A. S., Krolikowski, W. Z., Beli, M., Assanto, G., & Kivshar, Y. S.

citation count

• 39

complete list of authors

• Izdebskaya, Yana V||Shvedov, Vlad G||Desyatnikov, Anton S||Krolikowski, Wieslaw Z||Belić, Milivoj||Assanto, Gaetano||Kivshar, Yuri S

publication date

• February 2010

publisher

• Optica Publishing Group  Publisher

published in

• Optics Express  Journal

keywords

• Computer Simulation
• Light
• Liquid Crystals
• Models, Chemical
• Refractometry
• Scattering, Radiation

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1364/OE.18.003258

start page

• 3258

end page

• 3263

volume

• 18

issue

• 4

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/oe.18.003258