Pitch-controlled reorientational nonlinearity in chiral nematic liquid crystals: a reduced-order model for self-focusing and soliton formation

Homa Saadatmand, M. Javad Zakeri, Ahmed Sameh Ahmed +6

We present a reduced-order semi-analytical model for reorientational nonlinearity in chiral nematic liquid crystals, showing that the chiral pitch acts as the dominant physical len…