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Nematicons: self-localised beams in nematic liquid crystals

Gaetano Assanto NooEL, Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab, University “Roma Tre”, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146, Rome, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Mirosław A. Karpierz Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00662, Warsaw, Poland
Pages 1161-1172 | Received 21 Apr 2009, Accepted 11 May 2009, Published online: 18 Nov 2009

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N. M. Sajitha & T. P. Suneera. (2022) Interplay between diffractive radiation shed and damping coefficient on nematicon propagation. Journal of Modern Optics 69:20, pages 1134-1141.
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Enrique Calisto, Noel F. Smyth & Gaetano Assanto. (2022) Optical isolation via direction-dependent soliton routing in birefringent soft matter. Optics Letters 47:11, pages 2782.
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Panayotis Panayotaros. (2021) Equilibria of a discrete Landau–de Gennes theory for nematic liquid crystals. The European Physical Journal Special Topics 231:3, pages 297-307.
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Gaetano Assanto, Timothy R. Marchant & Noel F. Smyth. (2022) Interactions of Self-Localised Optical Wavepackets in Reorientational Soft Matter. Applied Sciences 12:5, pages 2607.
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Sreekanth Perumbilavil, Martti Kauranen & Gaetano Assanto. (2019) Spatiospectral features of a soliton-assisted random laser in liquid crystals. Optics Letters 44:14, pages 3574.
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