Frequency-controlled deflection of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi; Alessandro Alberucci; Oleksandr Buchnev; Malgosia Kaczmarek; Iam Choon Khoo; Gaetano Assanto

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Frequency-controlled deflection of spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals

Armando Piccardi, Alessandro Alberucci, Oleksandr Buchnev, Malgosia Kaczmarek, Iam Choon Khoo, Gaetano Assanto

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We demonstrate frequency-controlled angular steering of light-induced solitary waveguides using dual frequency nematic liquid crystals. Specially designed comb-shaped electrodes allow the maximization of the in-plane electro-optic angular deviation of the soliton Poynting vector, modulating the resulting walk-off up to an overall deflection of 13 ° when the frequency of the applied voltage goes from 1 to 100 kHz.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	081112
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	101
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4747716
State	Published - Aug 20 2012

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