• DocumentCode
    2023313
  • Title

    Discrete spatial solitons, breathers and steering in liquid crystal waveguide arrays

  • Author

    Fratalocchi, A. ; Brzdakiewicz, K. ; Karpierz, M. ; Assanto, Gaetano

  • Author_Institution
    Nonlinear Opt. & Optoelectronics Lab., Rome Univ., Italy
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    7-11 Nov. 2004
  • Firstpage
    839
  • Abstract
    The paper reports on the generation of discrete solitons, breathers and power-controlled beam steering in a novel voltage-controlled array of weakly-coupled waveguides in nematic liquid crystals (NLC).
  • Keywords
    beam steering; nematic liquid crystals; optical couplers; optical solitons; optical waveguides; beam steering; breathers; discrete spatial solitons; nematic liquid crystals; weakly-coupled waveguide arrays; Liquid crystals; Liquid waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical arrays; Optical coupling; Optical planar waveguides; Optical solitons; Optical waveguides; Planar waveguides; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2004. LEOS 2004. The 17th Annual Meeting of the IEEE
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8557-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/LEOS.2004.1363502
  • Filename
    1363502