Nonlinear optical director reorientation in heliconical cholesteric liquid crystals: a brief review
Cholesteric liquid crystals, Cable Ties also known as chiral nematics, possess a right-angle helicoidal structure with pitch in the submicrometer and micrometer range.Although the possibility of getting optical reorientation in this kind of materials has been considered since the discovery of giant optical nonlinearity in nematic liquid crystals, a