Voltage-driven beam bistability in a reorientational uniaxial dielectric
Voltage-driven beam bistability in a reorientational uniaxial dielectric
We report on voltage controlled bistability of optical beams propagating in a nonlocal reorientational uniaxial dielectric, namely, nematic liquid crystals. In the nonlinear regime where spatial solitons can be generated, two stable states are accessible to a beam of given power in a finite interval of applied voltages, one state corresponding to linear diffraction and the other to self-confinement. We observe such a first-order transition and the associated hysteresis in a configuration when both the beam and the voltage reorientate the molecules beyond a threshold.
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Piccardi, A.
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Kravets, N.
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Alberucci, A.
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Buchnev, O.
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Assanto, G.
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18 April 2016
Piccardi, A.
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Kravets, N.
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Alberucci, A.
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Buchnev, O.
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Assanto, G.
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Piccardi, A., Kravets, N., Alberucci, A., Buchnev, O. and Assanto, G.
(2016)
Voltage-driven beam bistability in a reorientational uniaxial dielectric.
APL Photonics, 1 (11302), .
(doi:10.1063/1.4945349).
Abstract
We report on voltage controlled bistability of optical beams propagating in a nonlocal reorientational uniaxial dielectric, namely, nematic liquid crystals. In the nonlinear regime where spatial solitons can be generated, two stable states are accessible to a beam of given power in a finite interval of applied voltages, one state corresponding to linear diffraction and the other to self-confinement. We observe such a first-order transition and the associated hysteresis in a configuration when both the beam and the voltage reorientate the molecules beyond a threshold.
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Accepted/In Press date: 27 January 2016
Published date: 18 April 2016
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/397531
ISSN: 2378-0967
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