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Optical Solitons
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Optical Solitons

by Yuri S. Kivshar, Govind Agrawal
June 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
540 pages
29h 55m
English
Academic Press
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14.1. SELF-FOCUSING AND SOLITONS IN LIQUID CRYSTALS 477
experiments [6, 7]. When the external electric field E is applied along the x axis, the
reorientation dynamics is described by the following equation [2]"
1
1
2
sin(20) + ~ eon21A[ 2 sin(20) = 0,
KV20 + :AeRFE
2
(14.1.4)
where A~RF is the low-frequency anisotropy.
Two-dimensional self-focusing of a light beam in bulk nematics has been observed
using both capillaries and planar cells. In one set of experiments [4, 5], the nematic
liquid crystal was inserted in a glass capillary with an inner diameter of 1.5 mm. The
optical beam from an argon laser was focused
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ISBN: 9780124105904