title: Nonspecular total internal reflection of spatial solitons at the interface between highly birefringent media.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Peccianti
authors.forename: Gaetano
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Assanto
authors.forename: Andriy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dyadyusha
authors.forename: Malgosia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kaczmarek