Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, Vol.488, 163-178, 2008
Guiding and routing light with nematicons
We review the main properties and applications of Nematicons, spatial solitons in reorientational nematic liquid crystals, with emphasis on waveguiding and processing of optical information.
Keywords:liquid crystals;nematicons;nonlinear optics;reorientational response;signal routing;spatial solitons