Nematicons in twisted liquid crystals

U. A. Laudyn, M. Kwany, K. Jaworowicz, K. A. Rutkowska, M. A. Karpierz and G. Assanto

Photon. Lett. Pol. 1 (1), 7-9 (2009)

Abstract:

In this work we demonstrate the properties of spatial solitary waves (nematicons) in a twisted nematic liquid crystallline film. Such self-trapped beams were created due to optical reorientational nonlinearity for a light power of a few tenths of milliwatts at the distances of a few millimeters. Additionally, it was demonstrated that a weak signal beam can be guided in a channel formed by a nematicon