Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Magnetic routing of light-induced waveguides

  • Yana Izdebskaya,
  • Vladlen Shvedov,
  • Gaetano Assanto,
  • Wieslaw Krolikowski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14452
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Nematic liquid crystals are frequently used as a reconfigurable material to control light propagation and as a nonlinear medium supporting solitons. Here, the authors demonstrate steering of such solitons in bulk nematic liquid crystals without lateral anchoring by external magnetic fields.