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Light Self-trapping in Nematic Liquid Crystals

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We review the most important achievements and recent progress in the area of light-beam self-localization into optical spatial solitons in reorientational molecular media, with specific focus on nematic liquid crystals in planarly aligned, twisted and chiral arrangements.

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  1. Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Koszykowa 75, 00662, Warsaw, Poland

    Miroslaw A. Karpierz

  2. NooEL, Nonlinear Optics and OptoElectronics Lab, CNISM, University of Rome ”Roma Tre”, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146, Rome, Italy

    Gaetano Assanto

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Correspondence to Miroslaw A. Karpierz .

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  1. Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de los Andes, Av. San Carlos de Apoquindo 2200, Santiago, Chile

    Orazio Descalzi

  2. Fac. Ciencias Físicas y Matemáticas, Depto. Física, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 487-3, Santiago, Chile

    Marcel Clerc

  3. Institut Non-linéaire de Nice, route de Lucioles 1361, Valbonne, 06560, France

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  4. Dipto. Ingegneria Elettronica, Università di Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, Roma, 00146, Italy

    Gaetano Assanto

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Karpierz, M.A., Assanto, G. (2011). Light Self-trapping in Nematic Liquid Crystals. In: Descalzi, O., Clerc, M., Residori, S., Assanto, G. (eds) Localized States in Physics: Solitons and Patterns. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16549-8_1

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