Nematicons: self-localised beams in nematic liquid crystals

被引：81
作者：
Assanto, Gaetano [1 ]
Karpierz, Miroslaw A. [2 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Roma Tre, Nonlinear Opt & OptoElect Lab, I-00146 Rome, Italy
[2] Warsaw Univ Technol, Fac Phys, PL-00662 Warsaw, Poland
来源：
LIQUID CRYSTALS | 2009年 / 36卷 / 10-11期
关键词：
spatial solitons; reorientational non-linearity; liquid crystals; OPTICAL SPATIAL SOLITONS; MODULATIONAL INSTABILITY; PROPAGATION; NONLINEARITY; NONLOCALITY; REFLECTION; GENERATION; REFRACTION; INTERPLAY; DYNAMICS;
D O I：
10.1080/02678290903033441
中图分类号：
O6 [化学];
学科分类号：
0703 ;
摘要：
We review the impressive progress on light self-localisation into spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals. We summarise the basic physics and models, outlining the main properties of nematicons and providing an overview of the most significant experimental achievements in undoped, planar, twisted and chiral nematic liquid crystals.
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页码：1161 / 1172
页数：12
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