Nonlinear Properties of Waveguides with Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal

• Authors: M. Karpierz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Optical reorientational nonlinearity in twisted nematic liquid crystalline planar waveguide is analyzed theoretically. It is shown that optical nonlinearity for guided modes in analyzed waveguides can be approximated by saturation nonlinearity. Predicted nonlinearity is large enough to observe effects like spatial solitons formation with milliwatts of light power.

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: 2001
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 161-173

Dates

published

2001-01

received

2001-06-08

Contributors

author

M. Karpierz

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

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.99.161