Title :
Light self-confinement in planar cells containing nematic liquid crystals
Author :
De Rossi, A. ; Peccianti, M. ; Assanto, G. ; De Luca, A. ; Karpiercz, M.A. ; Khoo, I.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Terza Univ. of Rome, Italy
Abstract :
Spatial solitons are formed by an argon-ion beam in cells containing undoped nematic liquid crystals and subject to an applied voltage. Self-confinement and guidance of a weak He-Ne probe are demonstrated with mW-powers over mm-lengths
Keywords :
ion beam effects; ion beams; laser beams; liquid crystal devices; nematic liquid crystals; optical solitons; Ar; He-Ne; applied voltage; argon-ion beam; light self-confinement; mW-powers; mm-lengths; nematic liquid crystals; planar cells; self-confinement; spatial solitons; undoped nematic liquid crystals; weak He-Ne probe; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical beams; Optical polarization; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical saturation; Optical solitons; Optical variables control; Physics;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2000 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Gdansk
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6337-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2000.874121
