Modeling of Spatial Solitons in Twisted Nematics Waveguides

• Authors: M. Karpierz , K. Brzdąkiewicz , Q. Nguyen
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Theoretical analysis of light beam propagation in twisted nematic liquid crystalline waveguides is presented. Due to the optical reorientation nonlinearity, the light beam changes the direction of propagation and optical spatial soliton is formed. Modeling of such behavior is presented by using (2+1)-dimensional vector beam propagation method as well as simplified (1+1)-dimensional method. Although both approaches give similar results, the differences are discussed in detail.

Keywords

EN

42.65.Wi; 42.70.Df

Discipline

• 42.65.Wi: Nonlinear waveguides
• 42.70.Df: Liquid crystals(for structure of liquid crystals, see 61.30.-v)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2003
• Volume: 103
• Issue: 2-3
• Pages: 169-175

Dates

published

2003-02/03

received

2002-09-05

Contributors

author

M. Karpierz

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

author

K. Brzdąkiewicz

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

author

Q. Nguyen

• Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00-662 Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.103.169