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Vortex solitons and charge flipping in nematic liquid crystals

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Authors

Izdebskaya, Yana

Desyatnikov, Anton S

Assanto, Gaetano

Kivshar, Yuri

Publisher

European Physical Society

Abstract

Spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals, or nematicons [1], provide an exciting opportunity to test theoretical predictions for unusual dynamics and stability of various nonlocal vortex solitons. Although spiraling of two nematicons was demonstrated earlier [2], the dynamics of optical beams carrying phase singularities in nematics were never explored before.

Keywords

Keywords: Charge flipping; Nematicons; Nematics; Nonlocal; Optical beams; Phase singularities; Spatial solitons; Theoretical prediction; Vortex solitons; Crystals; Electron optics; Liquid lasers; Optics; Quantum electronics; Solitons; Vortex flow; Nematic liquid cr

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/55976

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/Europe) 2011

Type

Conference paper

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5942698

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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