Title :
Experimental evidence of solitons and domain walls in diffractive and antidiffractive configurations of a passive Kerr Fabry-Pérot cavity
Author :
Louvergneaux, E. ; Odent, V. ; Coulibaly, S. ; Glorieux, P. ; Taki, M.
Author_Institution :
Lab. de Phys. des Lasers, Atomes et Mol., Univ. Lille1, Villeneuve d´´Ascq, France
Abstract :
We report on the experimental investigation of the formation and dynamics of LSs in a transverse one dimensional passive Kerr Fabry-Perot cavity filled with an ultra-thin slice of liquid crystal (LC) as nonlinear Kerr medium.
Keywords :
Fabry-Perot resonators; light diffraction; optical Kerr effect; optical solitons; antidiffractive configurations; domain walls; liquid crystal; nonlinear Kerr medium; passive Kerr Fabry-Perot cavity; solitons;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location :
Munich
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0533-5
Electronic_ISBN :
Pending
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943555
