All-optical Switching in Photonic Structures with Liquid-crystal Defects
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Miroshnichenko, Andrey
Pinkevych, Igor
Kivshar, Yuri
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Optical Society of America
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We show that tunable nonlinearity of nematics can be employed for all-optical operations in photonic structures. We show numerically that the light-induced Freedericksz transition can lead to sharp switching and diode operation.
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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Quantum Electronics and Laser Science: Conference on Photonic Applications, Systems and Technologies: Technical Digest CD-ROM
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