Atlas home || Conferences | Abstracts | about Atlas

Variational Methods: Open Problems, Recent Progress, and Numerical Algorithms
June 5-8, 2002
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ, USA

Organizers
John M. Neuberger, NAU, James W. Swift, NAU, Ratnasingham, Shivaji, MSU

View Abstracts
Conference Homepage

Light interacting with liquid crystals
by
Clara Garza-Hume
IIMAS,UNAM
Coauthors: A.A. Minzoni, C. Garcia-Reimbert, N. Smyth

We study the propagation of an envelope optical soliton in a nematic waveguide. The waveguide is subject to an elastic distortion and this distortion propagates as a front, which in turn influences the propagation of the soliton. It is found that the reorientation of the optical director can produce either focusing or defocusing of the soliton. We find approximate equations which are solved numerically.

Date received: April 29, 2002

Copyright © 2002 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # caio-13.