scholarly journals Three-color vector nematicon

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urszula Anna Laudyn ◽  
Michał Kwaśny ◽  
Mirosław Karpierz ◽  
Gaetano Assanto
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Curvature Effects ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Color Vector ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons ◽  
Nonlocal Media

Light localization via reorientation in nematic liquid crystals supports multi-component optical spatial solitons, i.e., vector nematicons. By launching three optical beams of different wavelengths and the same input polarization in a bias-free planar cell, we demonstrate a three-color vector nematicon which is self-trapped thanks to its incoherent nature. Full Text: PDF ReferencesG. I. Stegeman and M. Segev, "Optical Spatial Solitons and Their Interactions: Universality and Diversity", Science 286 (5444), 1518 (1999) CrossRef W. Królikowski and O. Bang, "Solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media: Exact solutions", Phys. Rev. E 63, 016610 (2000) CrossRef D. Suter and T. Blasberg, "Stabilization of transverse solitary waves by a nonlocal response of the nonlinear medium", Phys. Rev. A 48, 4583 (1993) CrossRef G. Assanto and M. Peccianti, "Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals", IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 39 (1), 13 (2003). CrossRef G. Assanto and M. Karpierz, "Nematicons: self-localised beams in nematic liquid crystals", Liq. Cryst. 36 (10), 1161 (2009) CrossRef M. Peccianti and G. Assanto, "Nematicons", Phys. Rep. 516, 147 (2012). CrossRef M. Peccianti and G. Assanto, "Incoherent spatial solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals", Opt. Lett. 26 (22), 1791 (2001) CrossRef M. Peccianti and G. Assanto, "Nematic liquid crystals: A suitable medium for self-confinement of coherent and incoherent light", Phys. Rev. E Rap. Commun. 65, 035603 (2002) CrossRef G. Assanto, M. Peccianti, C. Umeton, A. De Luca and I. C. Khoo, "Coherent and Incoherent Spatial Solitons in Bulk Nematic Liquid Crystals", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 375, 617 (2002) CrossRef A. Alberucci, M. Peccianti, G. Assanto, A. Dyadyusha and M. Kaczmarek, "Two-Color Vector Solitons In Nonlocal Media", Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 153903 (2006) CrossRef G. Assanto, N. F. Smyth and A. L. Worthy, "Two-color, nonlocal vector solitary waves with angular momentum in nematic liquid crystals", Phys. Rev. A 78 (1), 013832 (2008) CrossRef G. Assanto, K. Garcia-Reimbert, A. A. Minzoni, N. F. Smyth and A. Worthy, "Lagrange solution for three wavelength solitary wave clusters in nematic liquid crystals", Physica D 240, 1213 (2011) CrossRef G. Assanto, A. A. Minzoni and N. F. Smyth, "Vortex confinement and bending with nonlocal solitons", Opt. Lett. 39 (3), 509 (2014) CrossRef G. Assanto, A. A. Minzoni and N. F. Smyth, "Deflection of nematicon-vortex vector solitons in liquid crystals", Phys. Rev. A 89, 013827 (2014) CrossRef G. Assanto and N. F. Smyth, "Soliton Aided Propagation and Routing of Vortex Beams in Nonlocal Media", J. Las. Opt. Photon. 1, 105 (2014) CrossRef Y. V. Izdebskaya, G. Assanto and W. Krolikowski, "Observation of stable-vector vortex solitons", Opt. Lett. 40 (17), 4182 (2015) CrossRef Y. V. Izdebskaya, W. Krolikowski, N. F. Smyth and G. Assanto, "Vortex stabilization by means of spatial solitons in nonlocal media", J. Opt. 18 (5), 054006 (2016) CrossRef J. F. Henninot, J. Blach and M. Warenghem, "Experimental study of the nonlocality of spatial optical solitons excited in nematic liquid crystal", J. Opt. A 9, 20 (2007) CrossRef Y. V. Izdebskaya, V. G. Shvedov, A. S. Desyatnikov, W. Z. Krolikowski, M. Belic, G. Assanto and Y. S. Kivshar, "Counterpropagating nematicons in bias-free liquid crystals", Opt. Express 18 (4), 3258 (2010) CrossRef N. Karimi, A. Alberucci, M. Virkki, M. Kauranen and G. Assanto, "Phase-front curvature effects on nematicon generation", J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5 (33), 903 (2016) CrossRef P. G. de Gennes and J. Prost, The Physics of Liquid Crystals, Oxford Science Publications (Clarendon Press, 2nd edition, 1993)I. C. Khoo, Liquid Crystals: Physical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Phenomena (Wiley, New York, 1995)A. Piccardi, M. Trotta, M. Kwasny, A. Alberucci, R. Asquini, M. Karpierz, A. d'Alessandro and G. Assanto, "Trends and trade-offs in nematicon propagation", Appl. Phys. B 104 (4), 805 (2011) CrossRef M. Kwasny, U. A. Laudyn, F. A. Sala, A. Alberucci, M. A. Karpierz and G. Assanto, "Self-guided beams in low-birefringence nematic liquid crystals", Phys. Rev. A 86 (1), 01382 (2012) CrossRef M. Peccianti, A. Fratalocchi and G. Assanto, "Transverse dynamics of nematicons", Opt. Express 12 (26), 6524 (2004) CrossRef C. Conti, M. Peccianti and G. Assanto, "Observation of Optical Spatial Solitons in a Highly Nonlocal Medium", Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (11), 113902 (2004) CrossRef A. Alberucci, C.-P. Jisha and G. Assanto, "Breather solitons in highly nonlocal media", J. Opt. 18, 125501 (2016) CrossRef

Nematic liquid crystals: An excellent playground for nonlocal nonlinear light localization in soft matter

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Alberucci ◽  
Gaetano Assanto ◽  
J. Michael L. MacNeil ◽  
Noel F. Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Solitary Waves ◽  
Soft Matter ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Approximate Solutions ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Light Localization ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons ◽  
Nonlocal Media ◽  
Nonlocal Nonlinear

The study of optical spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals (NLC) has greatly improved the understanding of light localization in reorientational nonlocal media. We report some of the latest progress with reference to bright and dark solitary waves in NLC, bright and dark nematicons, discussing models and methods for their description and simulation. We give an account of exact and approximate solutions, as well as nematicon bistability.

Nematicons: Optical Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaetano Assanto ◽  
Marco Peccianti ◽  
Claudio Conti
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons

scholarly journals Interactions between strong nonlocal optical spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 285
Author(s):  
Yang Ping-Bao ◽  
Cao Long-Gui ◽  
Hu Wei ◽  
Zhu Ye-Qing ◽  
Guo Qi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons

TRANSVERSE SELF-ACCELERATION OF NEMATICONS: CAN A SELF-CONFINED BEAM CHANGE ITS OWN PATH?

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (03) ◽  
pp. 237-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
GAETANO ASSANTO ◽  
ALESSANDRO ALBERUCCI ◽  
ARMANDO PICCARDI
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Transverse Force ◽  
The Self ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
Host Interaction ◽  
All Optical ◽  
Optical Spatial Solitons

We report on power-dependent self-transverse acceleration of optical spatial solitons in two settings: pure nematic liquid crystals, where the self-steering is a consequence of all-optical reorientation through nonlinear changes in birefringent walk-off, and dye-doped nematic liquid crystals, where the guest-host interaction amplifies reorientation and enhances the transverse force acting on the soliton, thus changing its trajectory.

Incoherent spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.G. Makris ◽  
H. Sarkissian ◽  
D.N. Christodoulides ◽  
G. Assanto
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Spatial Solitons

scholarly journals Addressable Refraction and Curved Soliton Waveguides Using Electric Interfaces

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio Fazio ◽  
Massimo Alonzo ◽  
Alessandro Belardini
Keyword(s):  
Liquid Crystals ◽  
Nematic Liquid Crystals ◽  
Total Reflection ◽  
Spatial Solitons ◽  
The Past ◽  
Curved Structures ◽  
Electro Optic ◽  
Propagation Losses ◽  
Complex Circuits

A great deal of interest over the years has been directed to the optical space solitons for the possibility of realizing 3D waveguides with very low propagation losses. A great limitation in their use for writing complex circuits is represented by the impossibility of making curved structures. In the past, solitons in nematic liquid crystals, called nematicons, were reflected on electrical interfaces, and more recently photorefractive spatial solitons have been, as well. In the present work, we investigate refraction and total reflection of spatial solitons with saturable electro-optic nonlinearity, such as the photorefractive ones, on an electric wall acting as a reflector. Using a custom FDTD code, the propagation of a self-confined beam was analyzed as a function of the applied electric bias. The electrical reflector was simulated by applying different biases in two adjacent volumes. We observed both smaller and larger angles of refraction, up to the critical π/2-refraction condition, and then the total reflection. The radii of curvature of the associated guides can be varied from centimeters down to hundreds of microns. The straight guides showed losses as low as 0.07 dB/cm as previously observed, while the losses associated with single curves were estimated to be as low as 0.2 dB.

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