Light propagation in confined nematic liquid crystals and device applications

A d'Alessandro, R Asquini - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Applications optical communications, optical sensors. Abstract Liquid crystals are
interesting linear and nonlinear optical materials used to make a wide variety of devices …

Self-confined light waves in nematic liquid crystals

G Assanto, NF Smyth - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2020 - Elsevier
The study of light beams propagating in the nonlinear, dispersive, birefringent and nonlocal
medium of nematic liquid crystals has attracted widespread interest in the last twenty years …

Efficient generation of extreme terahertz harmonics in three-dimensional Dirac semimetals

J Lim, YS Ang, FJ García de Abajo, I Kaminer… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We show that three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetals (DSMs) can achieve highly efficient
terahertz high-order harmonic generation (HHG) up to the 31st harmonic with input …

Vortex nematicons in planar cells

UA Laudyn, M Kwaśny, MA Karpierz, G Assanto - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We provide experimental evidence that stable vortex-solitons in nematic liquid crystals,
termed vortex nematicons, can be generated in planar cells without any external biases …

Formation and stability of vortex solitons in nematic liquid crystals

PS Jung, YV Izdebskaya, VG Shvedov… - Optics Letters, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We study the propagation dynamics of bright optical vortex solitons in nematic liquid crystals
with a nonlocal reorientational nonlinear response. We investigate the role of optical …

Direction-dependent optical solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals

E Calisto, G Assanto - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We investigate the optical propagation of reorientational solitary waves in nonuniformly
oriented planar samples of thermotropic liquid crystals in the nematic phase. A …

[HTML][HTML] Filamentation and stabilization of vortex solitons in nonlinear metamaterial waveguides

AKS Ali, A Govindarajan, M Lakshmanan - Physics Letters A, 2022 - Elsevier
We analyze the dynamics of vortex solitons and the formation of soliton clusters with
controllable attributes in a nonlinear metamaterial waveguide. We consider the nonlinear …

[HTML][HTML] Two-dimensional modulation instability and higher-order soliton clusters in nematic liquid crystals with competing re-orientational and thermal nonlocal …

B Du, L Ge, M Shen - Results in Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate two-dimensional modulation instability (MI) and higher-order soliton clusters
in nematic liquid crystals with competing re-orientational and thermal nonlocal …

Stable fundamental two-dimensional solitons in media with competing nonlocal interactions

PS Jung, GG Pyrialakos, J Pilka, M Kwasny… - Chaos, Solitons & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soliton attract a great deal of attention across various disciplines, from optics to fluid
mechanics, cosmology, as well as particle and condensed matter physics, due to their …

Scalar and vector supermode solitons owing to competing nonlocal nonlinearities

A Ramaniuk, M Trippenbach, PS Jung… - Optics …, 2021 - opg.optica.org
We investigate scalar and vector multi-hump spatial solitons resulting from competing Kerr-
like nonlinear responses excited in a nonlocal medium by either one or two (mutually …