Discrete solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Mirosław A. Karpierz; Gaetano Assanto; Katarzyna A. Brzda̧kiewicz; Andrea Fratalocchi; Edward Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki; Marek Sierakowski

Discrete solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Mirosław A. Karpierz^*, Gaetano Assanto, Katarzyna A. Brzda̧kiewicz, Andrea Fratalocchi, Edward Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, Marek Sierakowski

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Numerical simulations and experimental measurements of the one-dimensional discrete system based on nematic liquid crystal waveguides are presented. Periodicity in the refractive index distribution is obtained by low-frequency electric field. Additionally, strong optical nonlinearity due to the reorientation effect modifies the propagation of light in the investigated system. As a result the discrete diffraction can be changed by external electric field as well as by increasing the power of the guided light beam. Finally, the discrete spatial solitons at miliwatts light power levels and at a few millimeters lengths are also shown.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Editors	M. Marciniak
Pages	167-170
Number of pages	4
State	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks - Wroclaw, Poland Duration: Jul 5 2004 → Jul 8 2004

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Name	Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Volume	1

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Other	Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks
Country/Territory	Poland
City	Wroclaw
Period	07/5/04 → 07/8/04

Keywords

Discrete solitons
Reorientational nonlinearity in liquid crystals

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General Engineering

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Karpierz, M. A., Assanto, G., Brzda̧kiewicz, K. A., Fratalocchi, A., Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, E., & Sierakowski, M. (2004). Discrete solitons in nematic liquid crystals. In M. Marciniak (Ed.), Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (pp. 167-170). (Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; Vol. 1).

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Karpierz, MA, Assanto, G, Brzda̧kiewicz, KA, Fratalocchi, A, Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, E & Sierakowski, M 2004, Discrete solitons in nematic liquid crystals. in M Marciniak (ed.), Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, vol. 1, pp. 167-170, Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks, Wroclaw, Poland, 07/5/04.

Discrete solitons in nematic liquid crystals. / Karpierz, Mirosław A.; Assanto, Gaetano; Brzda̧kiewicz, Katarzyna A. et al.
Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks. ed. / M. Marciniak. 2004. p. 167-170 (Proceedings of 2004 6th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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