Accelerated optical solitons in reorientational media with transverse invariance and longitudinally modulated birefringence

作者:Laudyn Urszula A; Kwasny Michal; Karpierz Miroslaw A; Smyth Noel F*; Assanto Gaetano
来源:Physical Review A, 2018, 98(2): 023810.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.98.023810

摘要

We demonstrate that reorientational spatial solitons can curve when propagating in a medium with engineered walk-off along the direction of propagation. In this regard, we employ nematic liquid crystals with molecular anchoring defined by electron-beam lithography and optic axis distribution modulated in the longitudinal direction only, keeping the transverse orientation constant. The experimental results are in remarkably good agreement with a simple modulation theory based on momentum conservation.

  • 出版日期2018-8-7