Interaction of nematicons in a bias-free liquid crystal cell
Pattern Formation and Solitons
2009-06-26 v1
Abstract
We study experimentally the propagation dynamics and interaction of spatial optical solitons in a bias-free cell filled with nematic liquid crystals. We reveal and measure long-range effects due to the cell boundaries for a single nematicon as well as for the interacting in-phase and out-of-phase nematicons. We discuss the effect of initial beam focusing and relative input angle on the interaction of in-phase nematicons.
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@article{arxiv.0906.4616,
title = {Interaction of nematicons in a bias-free liquid crystal cell},
author = {Yana Izdebskaya and Vladlen Shvedov and Anton S. Desyatnikov and Wieslaw Krolikowski and Gaetano Assanto and Yuri S. Kivshar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0906.4616},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages, 4 figures, submitted