Multimode nematicon waveguides.
We report on the first (to our knowledge) experimental observation of higher-order modes guided by soliton-induced waveguides in nematic liquid crystals. We find that the nematicon waveguides operate in a bounded power region specific to each guided mode. Below this region, the guided beams diffract; above this region, the mode mixing and coupling give rise to an unstable output.
Nonlinear Physics Center, Research School of Physics and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200, Australia. yvi124@rsphysse.anu.edu.au
Yana V
YV
Izdebskaya
Anton S
AS
Desyatnikov
Gaetano
G
Assanto
Yuri S
YS
Kivshar