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Opt Lett. 2007 Feb 01;32(3):271-3. doi: 10.1364/ol.32.000271.

Nonlinear shift of spatial solitons at a graded dielectric interface.

Optics letters

Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto, Andriy Dyadyusha, Malgosia Kaczmarek

Affiliations

  1. Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, IFN and CNISM University, Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84 - 00146, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 17215942 DOI: 10.1364/ol.32.000271

Abstract

We investigate total internal reflection of optical spatial solitons at the interface between two regions of nematic liquid crystals with different optical densities. Due to nonlinear molecular reorientation, the solitons experience a penetration depth, hence, a lateral shift that depends on the excitation, with lateral shifts from 0.7 to 1.2 mm as input powers increased from 1.6 to 9.3 mW.

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