Nonspecular total internal reflection of spatial solitons at the interface between highly birefringent media.
We investigate total internal reflection of nonlocal spatial optical solitons at the interface between two differently oriented regions of a highly birefringent nematic liquid crystal. The solitons survive the interaction with an induced index mismatch and undergo nonspecular reflection, with an emerging angle differing appreciably from the incidence angle.
Peccianti
Marco
M
NooEL - Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab - Department of Electronic Engineering, INFN and CNISM, University Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146, Rome, Italy. m.peccianti@uniroma3.it
Assanto
Gaetano
G
Dyadyusha
Andriy
A
Kaczmarek
Malgosia
M