Frequency-controlled deflection of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi; Alessandro Alberucci; Oleksandr Buchnev; Malgosia Kaczmarek; Iam Choon Khoo; Gaetano Assanto

doi:10.1063/1.4747716

Frequency-controlled deflection of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi^*
, Alessandro Alberucci
, Oleksandr Buchnev
, Malgosia Kaczmarek
, Iam Choon Khoo
, Gaetano Assanto

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We demonstrate frequency-controlled angular steering of light-induced solitary waveguides using dual frequency nematic liquid crystals. Specially designed comb-shaped electrodes allow the maximization of the in-plane electro-optic angular deviation of the soliton Poynting vector, modulating the resulting walk-off up to an overall deflection of 13 degrees when the frequency of the applied voltage goes from 1 to 100 kHz.

Original language	English
Article number	081112
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747716
Publication status	Published - 20 Aug 2012
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

O.B. and M. K. acknowledge the financial support of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council under the KTS scheme and thank Professor M. Damzen and Midaz Lasers Ltd. for their contribution. A. A. would like to thank "Regione Lazio" for financial support.

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LIGHT
TRANSISTOR
COUPLER
LENS

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