Self-focusing and nematicons in chiral nematic liquid crystals

Urszula A. Laudyn; Michal Kwasny; Katarzyna Jaworowicz; Katarzyna A. Rutkowska; Mirosław A. Karpierz

doi:10.1117/12.822360

20 November 2008 Self-focusing and nematicons in chiral nematic liquid crystals

Urszula A. Laudyn, Michal Kwasny, Katarzyna Jaworowicz, Katarzyna A. Rutkowska, Mirosław A. Karpierz

Proceedings Volume 7141, 16th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics; 71410F (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.822360
Event: 16th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 2008, Polanica Zdroj, Poland

Abstract

In this work we present the experimental results of measurements of spatial solitons (nematicons) in chiral nematic liquid crystalline film. We measured the propagation of light beam at the distance of few millimeters and the nonlinear selffocusing was observed for a light power of order of few tenths of milliwats. The experimental results are in a good agreement with theoretical predictions.

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Urszula A. Laudyn, Michal Kwasny, Katarzyna Jaworowicz, Katarzyna A. Rutkowska, and Mirosław A. Karpierz "Self-focusing and nematicons in chiral nematic liquid crystals", Proc. SPIE 7141, 16th Polish-Slovak-Czech Optical Conference on Wave and Quantum Aspects of Contemporary Optics, 71410F (20 November 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.822360

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