Multimode nematicon waveguides

Yana V. Izdebskaya; Anton S. Desyatnikov; Gaetano Assanto; Yuri S. Kivshar

doi:10.1364/OL.36.000184

Multimode nematicon waveguides

Yana V. Izdebskaya, Anton S. Desyatnikov, Gaetano Assanto, Yuri S. Kivshar

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We report on the first (to our knowledge) experimental observation of higher-order modes guided by soliton-induced waveguides in nematic liquid crystals. We find that the nematicon waveguides operate in a bounded power region specific to each guided mode. Below this region, the guided beams diffract; above this region, the mode mixing and coupling give rise to an unstable output.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	184-186
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.000184
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2011

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