Abstract
We experimentally demonstrate and model dark spatial solitons in azo-doped liquid crystals, in the presence of saturation and nonlocality of the effective nonlinearity due to changes in molecular order. The guiding properties of dark solitons are probed with a weak input of different wavelength. (c) 2011 Optical Society of America
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1356-1358 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Optics Letters |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Apr 2011 |
| Publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
We are grateful to S. Heidari-Bateni and BEAM. Effort partially sponsored by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (USAFOSR), Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC), United States Air Force (USAF), under grant FA-8655-10-1-3010.
Keywords
- SPATIAL SOLITONS
- OPTICAL SOLITONS
- LIQUID-CRYSTALS
- MEDIA
- PULSES
- LIGHT
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