Conti Claudio, Peccianti Marco, Assanto Gaetano
Centro studi e ricerche "Enrico Fermi," Via Panisperna 89/A, 00184, Rome, Italy.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2005 Dec;72(6 Pt 2):066614. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.72.066614. Epub 2005 Dec 22.
With reference to spatially nonlocal nematic liquid crystals, we develop a theory of optical spatial solitons and modulational instability in anisotropic media with arbitrarily large birefringence. Asymmetric spatial profiles and multivalued features are predicted for self-localized light versus walk-off angle. The results hold valid for generic self-focusing birefringent media and apply to large angle steering of individual and multiple self-trapped optical beams.