Nematicons in Liquid Crystal Light Valves

Author

Bortolozzo, U. ; Piccardi, A. ; Residori, S. ; Assanto, G.

Author_Institution

CNRS, Inst. Non Lineaire de Nice, Valbonne, France

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

Conspicuous efforts have been devoted to exploit spatial solitons for signal processing. In nematic liquid crystals steering of spatial solitons or nematicons has been reported in planar cells. In this communication, we demonstrate excitation and tunable propagation of spatial solitons in photoconductive light valves filled with nematic liquid crystals (LCLV). We show that nematicons can be effectively launched and deviated in LCLV, combining self-guidance with parallel nonlinear optical processing.

Keywords

light valves; nematic liquid crystals; optical solitons; signal processing; liquid crystal light valves; nematic liquid crystals steering; nematicons; parallel nonlinear optical processing; photoconductive light valves; signal processing; spatial solitons; tunable propagation; Laser beams; Liquid crystals; Nonlinear optics; Optical propagation; Optical signal processing; Photoconductivity; Polarization; Solitons; Valves; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5194831

Filename

5194831