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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics/Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies
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  • paper JThC49

All-optical switching in photonic structures with liquid-crystal defects

Andrey E. Miroshnichenko, Igor Pinkevych, and Yuri S. Kivshar

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Abstract

We show that tunable nonlinearity of nematics can be employed for all-optical operations in photonic structures. We show numerically that the light-induced Freedericksz transition can lead to sharp switching and diode operation.

© 2006 Optical Society of America

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