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Counterpropagating nematicons in bias-free liquid crystals

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2010-02-01

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Izdebskaya, Yana
Shvedov, Vladlen
Desyatnikov, Anton S
Krolikowski, Wieslaw
Kivshar, Yuri

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Optical Society of America

Abstract

We experimentally investigate the interaction of two counterpropagating spatial optical solitons (nematicons) in bias-free nematic liquid crystals. We demonstrate the existence of vector solitons composed of two nematicons propagating in opposite directions and analyze their stability versus relative distance and input power.We observe the dynamic instability of two counterpropagating nematicons in the form of time-dependent splitting and spatial entanglement.

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spatial solitons, liquid crystals

Citation

Optics Express 18.4 (2010): 3258-3263

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http://hdl.handle.net/10440/1034
 http://digitalcollections.anu.edu.au/handle/10440/1034

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ANU Research Publications

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Optics Express

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Journal article

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10.1364/OE.18.003258

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