Sub-milliwatt dissipative nematicons and spontaneous light emission in dye-doped nematic liquid crystals

A. Piccardi, A. Alberucci and G. Assanto

Electron. Lett. 46, 790 (2010)

Abstract:

Blue light self-confinement in active dye-doped nematic liquid crystals is reported, demonstrating trapping of the emitted red light in dissipative spatial solitons formed by all-optical reorientation.