Nematicons: Spatial Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals

Absorption resonance

Accessible light bullets

experimental conditions for observing

formation of

Accessible soliton limit

Accessible solitons

nematicons as

in NLC beam propagation general model

phase shift of

shape-preserving

of Snyder- Mitchell model

Accessible soliton solutions

Air- NLC input/output interfaces. See also Nematic liquid crystals (NLCs)

Alberucci, Alessandro

All-optical angular steering

All-optical control, on nematicons

All-optical control protocols

All-optical devices

All-optical guided-wave signal processors

All-optical perturbation

All-optical signal steering

All-optical X junction

Amplitude

differential equation for

of oscillation

Amplitude oscillations

levels of beating in

Amplitude- width relation, 375. See also Steady-state amplitude- width relation

Analog optical processor

Analog signal processors

Analytical solutions, numerical simulations vs.

Anchoring conditions

AND logic gate, nematicon-based

Angular momentum

shedding of

Angular momentum conservation equation

Angular momentum loss

Angular profile

Angular velocity

Anisotropic media

Anisotropic nonlinear Schrdinger equation (ANLSE)

Anisotropic perturbative model

Anisotropy, in reorientational dynamics

Ansatz. See Gaussian ansatz

Antibullets

Aperiodic breathing

Apparent walk-off

Approximate analytical self-similar solutions

Approximate analytical solutions, perturbation method for finding

Approximate self-similar ...