Molding optical waveguides with nematicons
Molding optical waveguides with nematicons
We demonstrate that a crosslinked polymer network can permanently mold spatial soliton waveguides into nematic liquid crystals for the confinements of optical signals, paving the way towards a novel bottom-up technology for guided-wave photonics with beam-shaped circuits. Moreover, we show that stabilization through polymerization is effective in quenching the trajectory fluctuations of such spatial solitons–nematicons-, allowing also their real-time use for all-optical signal processing.
Karimi, Nazarin
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Virkki, Matti
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Alberucci, Alessandro
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Buchnev, Oleksandr
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Kauranen, Martti
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Karimi, Nazarin
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Virkki, Matti
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Alberucci, Alessandro
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Buchnev, Oleksandr
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Kauranen, Martti
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Karimi, Nazarin, Virkki, Matti, Alberucci, Alessandro, Buchnev, Oleksandr and Kauranen, Martti
(2017)
Molding optical waveguides with nematicons.
Advanced Optical Materials.
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Abstract
We demonstrate that a crosslinked polymer network can permanently mold spatial soliton waveguides into nematic liquid crystals for the confinements of optical signals, paving the way towards a novel bottom-up technology for guided-wave photonics with beam-shaped circuits. Moreover, we show that stabilization through polymerization is effective in quenching the trajectory fluctuations of such spatial solitons–nematicons-, allowing also their real-time use for all-optical signal processing.
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Molding optical waveguides with nematicons
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Accepted/In Press date: 13 April 2017
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Nazarin Karimi
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Matti Virkki
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Alessandro Alberucci
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Oleksandr Buchnev
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Martti Kauranen
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