Nematicon self-steering

A. Piccardi, A. Alberucci and G. Assanto

Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 549, 1-9 (2011)

Abstract:

We report on nematicon self-steering in two settings: pure nematic liquid crystals, where the steering stems directly from optical reorientation, and dye-doped liquid crystals, where strong confinement owing to a guest-host interaction allows the appearance of a transverse force acting on the beam.