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 …

Multihump thermo-reorientational solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals: Modulation theory solutions

G Assanto, C Khan, NF Smyth - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
The propagation of light-induced thermo-reorientational solitary waves in nematic liquid
crystals is studied using numerical solutions of the full governing equations and variational …

[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 …

Interactions of self-localised optical wavepackets in reorientational soft matter

G Assanto, TR Marchant, NF Smyth - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The interaction of optical solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals, nematicons and vortices,
with other nematicons and localised structures, such as refractive index changes, is …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlocal two-color vector dark solitons

L Wu, L Ge, Q Kong, M Shen - Results in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, vector dark solitons with two colors are demonstrated in nonlocal nonlinear
Kerr medium. Using Lagrangian method and rectangular profile of nonlocal response of the …

Adiabatic propagation in nematic liquid crystals with competing nonlinearities

M Du, S Pu, M Zhang, Y Sun, X Wang - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We theoretically investigate the influence of the variation of the nonlocal degree of the
molecular orientation effect σ 1 and the nonlocal degree of the thermal effect σ 2 on beam …

Chaotic self-trapped beams in the nonlocal nonlinear system with the sine-oscillation response

L Zhong, X Li, Q Guo - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
The propagation of the unstable multipeak solitons in the nonlocal nonlinear system with the
sine-oscillation response was examined in this paper. It was found that the beams are self …

Light Confinement with Structured Beams in Gold Nanoparticle Suspensions

A Balbuena Ortega, FE Torres-González… - Photonics, 2021 - mdpi.com
We carry out an experimental campaign to investigate the nonlinear self-defocusing
propagation of singular light beams with various complex structures of phase and intensity in …

Thermal effects on nonlinear optical beam propagation in nematic liquid crystals

CC Khan - 2021 - era.ed.ac.uk
This thesis examines in detail the study of nonlinear wave phenomena arising in different
contexts in applied nonlinear optics. In particular, it explores the intricate nonlinear interplay …