Interactions of Self-Localised Optical Wavepackets in Reorientational Soft Matter

Gaetano Assanto; Timothy R. Marchant; Noel F. Smyth

doi:10.3390/app12052607

Applied Sciences (Mar 2022)

Interactions of Self-Localised Optical Wavepackets in Reorientational Soft Matter

Gaetano Assanto,
Timothy R. Marchant,
Noel F. Smyth

Affiliations

Gaetano Assanto: NooEL—Nonlinear Optics & OptoElectronics Laboratory, University of Rome “Roma Tre”, 00146 Rome, Italy
Timothy R. Marchant: Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia
Noel F. Smyth: School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app12052607
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 5
p. 2607

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The interaction of optical solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals, nematicons and vortices, with other nematicons and localised structures, such as refractive index changes, is reviewed. Such interactions are shown to enable simple routing schemes as a basis for all-optical guided wave signal manipulation.

Published in Applied Sciences

ISSN: 2076-3417 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Technology: Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General); Science: Biology (General); Science: Physics; Science: Chemistry
Website: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci

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