The present review summarizes experimental and theoretical work dealing with self-
organized solitary localized structures (LSs) that are observed in spatially extended …

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 …

A novel design and approach for the realization of liquid crystal optical waveguides using
photopatterning as a manufacturing method is presented. The developed method is used to …

The interaction of spatial optical solitons in nematic liquid crystals or nematicons with
electrically induced waveguides is investigated experimentally and numerically. Our …

A Gaussian beam emerging out of a fibre and launched into a dye doped nematic liquid
crystal experiences self-waveguiding for appropriate input power in the milliwatt range. This …

A highly nonlocal optical response in space has been shown to heal several shortcomings
of beam self-action in nonlinear optics. At the same time, nonlocality is often connected to …

Nonlinear propagation in nematic liquid crystals and spatial optical quasi-soliton can be
generated via either thermal or orientational nonlinear process. These particular …

Up to now, spatial optical solitons have been mostly studied for their particular nature (a
nonlinear mode of propagation); with a potential application in steering and routing beams …

Spatial optical solitons have already been successfully launched in a pure nematic or in a
dye-doped nematic, exploiting either the orientational or thermal nonlinearity of the liquid …

We report on power-dependent self-transverse acceleration of optical spatial solitons in two
settings: pure nematic liquid crystals, where the self-steering is a consequence of all-optical …