title: Nematicon-nematicon interactions in a medium with tunable nonlinearity and fixed nonlocality.
abstract: We investigate the attractive interaction between spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals with a tunable nonlinearity and a constant nonlocality. The experimental study, carried out by controlling the orientation of the optic axis via the electro-optic response, shows how the interactions depend on reorientation, in excellent agreement with a model accounting for the anisotropic nature of the dielectric.
authors: Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab (NooEL), Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy.
authors: Michal
authors: M
authors: Kwasny
authors: Armando
authors: A
authors: Piccardi
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Alberucci
authors: Marco
authors: M
authors: Peccianti
authors: Malgosia
authors: M
authors: Kaczmarek
authors: Miroslaw A
authors: MA
authors: Karpierz
authors: Gaetano
authors: G
authors: Assanto