title: Route to nonlocality and observation of accessible solitons.
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.
authors.affiliation: NOOEL-Nonlinear Optics and Optoelectronics Lab, National Institute for the Physics of Matter, INFM-Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Conti
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peccianti
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Assanto