Nematicons: reorientational solitons from optics to photonics

G Assanto - Liquid crystals reviews, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

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 …

Propagation dynamics of tripole breathers in nonlocal nonlinear media

JL Guo, ZJ Yang, LM Song, ZG Pang - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2020 - Springer
We demonstrate the propagation dynamics of optical breathers in nonlinear media with a
spatial nonlocality, which is governed by the nonlocal nonlinear Schrödinger equation, by …

Breatherlike solitons extracted from the Peregrine rogue wave

G Yang, Y Wang, Z Qin, BA Malomed, D Mihalache… - Physical Review E, 2014 - APS
Based on the Peregrine solution (PS) of the nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) equation, the
evolution of rational fraction pulses surrounded by zero background is investigated. These …

Two-dimensional vortex dipole solitons in nonlocal nonlinearity with PT-symmetric Scarff-II potential

P Chen, H Wang - Optics Express, 2023 - opg.optica.org
We investigate the dynamics and stability of two-dimensional (2D) vortex dipole solitons in
nonlocal nonlinearity with PT-symmetric Scarff-II potential. We analyze the solitons with …

Tripole-mode and quadrupole-mode solitons in (1+ 1)-dimensional nonlinear media with a spatial exponential-decay nonlocality

Z Dai, Z Yang, X Ling, S Zhang, Z Pang, X Li… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
The approximate analytical expressions of tripole-mode and quadrupole-mode solitons in
(1+ 1)-dimensional nematic liquid crystals are obtained by applying the variational …

The effect of parabolic potential on the generation of higher harmonics of nematicons

NM Sajitha, TP Suneera - Physica Scripta, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the behavior of nonlocal spatial optical solitons in a uniaxial nematic liquid
crystal with a parabolic potential. The equations governing the system are solved using semi …

Thermal response of single-peak and double-peak nematicons

NM Sajitha, TP Suneera - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2023 - Springer
The thermal responses of single-peak and double-peak solitons in a nematic liquid crystal
have been studied numerically. Single-peak nematicons have been obtained for low values …

Thermal response of nematicons in a parabolic potential

NM Sajitha, TP Suneera - Physica Scripta, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The thermal response of nematicons in a parabolic potential has been numerically studied.
Single-peak nematicons exist only in the absence of thermal response coefficients. Because …

Dynamics of dipole breathers in nonlinear media with a spatial exponential-decay nonlocality

ZJ Yang, ZP Dai, SM Zhang, ZG Pang - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2015 - Springer
By applying the variational approach, the analytical expression of dipole breathers is
obtained in nonlinear media with an exponential-decay nonlocal response. The parameters …