We review the recent developments of spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals, also
known as Nematicons. We outline their properties, linked to a reorientational nonlinearity in …

The most recent advances on phenomena and effects which involve spatial optical solitons
stemming from the reorientational optical response of nematic liquid crystals, the so called …

Solitons attract a great deal of interest in many fields, ranging from optics to fluid mechanics,
cosmology, particle physics and condensed matter. However, solitons of these very different …

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 …

We investigate spatial optical solitons propagating in a medium with a saturable but
adjustable nonlinearity and a fixed degree of nonlocality. We employ nematic liquid crystals …

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 …

Spatial solitons can be excited in liquid crystal, with the required self-focusing being
achieved by setting either a thermal gradient or an orientational one. Although the thermal …

Soliton induced waveguides can be all-optically readdressed in planar cells by modifying
the molecular anchoring with an external light source. Using an elliptically shaped control …

We demonstrate that optical spatial solitons with non-rectilinear trajectories can be made to
propagate in a uniaxial dielectric with a transversely modulated orientation of the optic axis …

ABSTRACT Nematic Liquid Crystals are birefringent soft matter exhibiting unique nonlocal
and nonlinear optical properties. Due to the interaction with finite-size light beams, self …