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Route to nonlocality and observation of accessible solitons
Claudio Conti1, Marco Peccianti, Gaetano Assanto
1NOOEL-Nonlinear Optics and Optoelectronics Lab, National Institute for the Physics of Matter, INFM-Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy.
Physical Review Letters
|August 26, 2003
Abstract:
We develop a general theory of spatial solitons in a liquid crystalline medium exhibiting a nonlinearity with an arbitrary degree of effective nonlocality. The model accounts the observability of accessible solitons and establishes an important link with parametric solitons.