Anomalous interaction of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Konrad Cyprych; Pawel S. Jung; Yana Izdebskaya; Vladlen Shvedov; Demetrios N. Christodoulides; Wieslaw Krolikowski

doi:10.1364/OL.44.000267

Anomalous interaction of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Konrad Cyprych^*
, Pawel S. Jung
, Yana Izdebskaya
, Vladlen Shvedov
, Demetrios N. Christodoulides
, Wieslaw Krolikowski

^*Corresponding author for this work

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We study experimentally the interaction of mutually incoherent bright spatial solitons in dye-doped nematic liquid crystals (LCs). The dye-induced light absorption results in a complex nonlinear optical response of the LC having spatially nonlocal focusing and defocusing contributions. The competition between both nonlinearities leads to the separation-dependent soliton interaction with repulsion of distant and attraction of closely placed solitons.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	267-270
Number of pages	4
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	44
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.000267
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2019

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