Vortex solitons and charge flipping in nematic liquid crystals

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Izdebskaya, Yana
Desyatnikov, Anton S
Assanto, Gaetano
Kivshar, Yuri

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European Physical Society

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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.

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

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2037-12-31