In-plane steering of nematicon waveguides across an electrically tuned interface

Armando Piccardi; Alessandro Alberucci; Raouf Barboza; Oleksandr Buchnev; Malgosia Kaczmarek; Gaetano Assanto

doi:10.1063/1.4729294

In-plane steering of nematicon waveguides across an electrically tuned interface

Armando Piccardi^*
, Alessandro Alberucci
, Raouf Barboza
, Oleksandr Buchnev
, Malgosia Kaczmarek
, Gaetano Assanto

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We study the interaction of a spatial soliton waveguide with a voltage defined and electrically tuned interface in nematic liquid crystals, whereby the optic axis is reoriented through the use of patterned electrodes. We investigate refraction and total internal reflection of nematicon wavepackets, disclosing the role of anisotropy and obtaining a remarkable in-plane steering as large as 55 degrees. (C) 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729294]

Original language	English
Article number	251107
Number of pages	4
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	100
Issue number	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4729294
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2012
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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O.B. and M.K. acknowledge the support of EPSRC (KTS scheme) and thank Professor M. Damzen and Midaz Lasers Ltd., for their contribution. A. A. thanks Regione Lazio for financial support.

Keywords

LIQUID-CRYSTALS
SPATIAL SOLITONS
BEAMS
BULK

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