Light beam hysteresis in liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi; Alessandro Alberucci; Nina Kravets; Gaetano Assanto; Oleksandr Buchnev; Malgosia Kaczmarek

doi:10.1109/Fotonica.2014.6843888

Light beam hysteresis in liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi
, Alessandro Alberucci
, Nina Kravets
, Gaetano Assanto
, Oleksandr Buchnev
, Malgosia Kaczmarek

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Abstract

We investigate optical bistability with light beams propagating in reorientational nematic liquid crystals. In a given interval of input powers, light beams can propagate in either diffracting or soliton states, depending on the 'history' of the system. We use biased planar samples exhibiting an abrupt self-focusing response with threshold.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, Fotonica AEIT 2014
Publisher	IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS
ISBN (Print)	9788887237177
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/Fotonica.2014.6843888
Publication status	Published - 2014
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, Fotonica AEIT 2014 - Naples, Italy Duration: 12 May 2014 → 14 May 2014

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Conference	2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, Fotonica AEIT 2014
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Naples
Period	12/05/14 → 14/05/14

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Hysteresis
Nematic liquid crystal
Obtical bistability
Spatial soliton

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Piccardi, A, Alberucci, A, Kravets, N, Assanto, G, Buchnev, O & Kaczmarek, M 2014, Light beam hysteresis in liquid crystals. in 2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, Fotonica AEIT 2014., 6843888, IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY PRESS, 2014 Fotonica AEIT Italian Conference on Photonics Technologies, Fotonica AEIT 2014, Naples, Italy, 12/05/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/Fotonica.2014.6843888

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