Collaborations:
University "Roma Tre" in Rome (Nonlinear Optics and Optoelectronics Laboratory)
Military University of Technology in Warsaw
Publications:
Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers:
P. Lesiak, T.R. Woliński, K. Brzd±kiewicz, K. Nowecka, S. Ertman, M. Karpierz, A. W. Domański and R. D±browski, "Temperature tuning of polarization mode dispersion in single-core and two-core photonic liquid crystal fibers", Opto-electronics Review 15 (2007) 27-31.
K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, U.A. Laudyn, M.A. Karpierz, T. R. Woliński and J. Wójcik, "Linear and nonlinear properties of photonic crystal fibers filled with nematic liquid crystals", Opto-Electronics Review 14 (2006) 287-292.
Nematicons:
K. Jaworowicz, K.A.Brzd±kiewicz, M.A.Karpierz, M. Sierakowski, "Spatial Solitons in Twisted Nematic Layer", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453 (2006) 301-307
M.A. Karpierz, K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, Q.V. Nguyen, "Modeling of spatial solitons in twisted nematics waveguides," Acta Physica Polonica A 103 (2003) 169-175. ( pdf)
M. Peccianti, G. Assanto, A. De Luca, C. Umeton, M.A. Karpierz, I.C. Khoo, "Light self-confinement in planar cells with nematic liquid crystals," Journal of Communications Technology and Electronics (Radiotechnikai i Electronika) 47 (2002) 790-795.( pdf-en)( pdf-ru)
M.A. Karpierz, M. Sierakowski, T.R. Woliński, "Light beam propagation in twisted nematics nonlinear waveguides," Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 375 (2002) 313-320. ( pdf)
M.A. Karpierz, "Solitary waves in liquid crystalline waveguides," Phys Rev. E 66 (2002) 036603. ( pdf)
M.A. Karpierz, Q.V. Nguyen, "Spatial solitons interaction in liquid crystalline waveguides," Opto-electronics Review 10 (2002) 59-62. ( pdf)
M.A. Karpierz, "Spatial solitons in liquid crystals", Soliton Driven Photonics, ed. A.D. Boardman, A.P. Sukhorukov, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 2001, 41-57. ( pdf)
M.A. Karpierz, M. Sierakowski, M. ¦wi³³o, T.R. Woliński, "Self focusing in liquid crystalline waveguides," Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 320 (1998) 157-163. ( pdf)
Discrete diffraction:
A. Fratalocchi, K.A. Rutkowska, M.A.Karpierz, G.Assanto, "Light induced angular steering via Floquet-Bloch band-tunnelling in one-dimensional liquid crystalline photonic lattices", Opto-electronics Review 15 (2007) 210-214.
A. Fratalocchi, G.Assanto, K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A.Karpierz, "Discrete light propagation and self-localization in voltage-controlled arrays of channel waveguides in undoped nematic liquid crystals", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 453 (2006) 191-202.
A. Fratalocchi, G.Assanto, K.A.Brzd±kiewicz, M.A.Karpierz, "Optically-induced Zener tunneling in one dimensional lattices", Opt. Lett. 31 (2006) 790-792.
K.A.Brzd±kiewicz, M.A.Karpierz, A. Fratalocchi, G.Assanto, E.Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, "Discrete Spatial Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals", Opto-Electron. Rev. 13, 107-112 (2005).
A. Fratalocchi, G. Assanto, K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A. Karpierz, "Optical multiband vector breathers in tunable waveguide arrays", Opt. Lett. 30 (2005) 174-176.
A. Fratalocchi, G. Assanto, K. A. Brzdakiewicz and M. A.. Karpierz, "All-optical switching and beam steering in tunable waveguide arrays", Appl. Phys. Lett. 86 (2005) 051112.
A. Fratalocchi, G. Assanto, K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A. Karpierz, "Discrete light propagation and self-trapping in liquid crystals", Opt. Express 13, (2005) 1808-1815 ( http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-6-1808)
K. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A. Karpierz, A. Fratalocchi, G.Assanto, "Discrete Optical Solitons in Nematic Liquid Crystals", Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals 421 (2004) 61-68. (pdf)
A. Fratalocchi, G. Assanto, K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A. Karpierz, "Discrete propagation and spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals," Opt. Lett. 29 (2004) 1530-1532.(pdf)
Reorientational nonlinearity:
K.A. Brzd±kiewicz, M.A. Karpierz, "Influence of light polarization on reorientational nonlinearity in nematic liquid crystals", Acta Physica Polonica A 103 (2003) 195-205. (pdf)
W.K. Bajdecki, M.A. Karpierz, "Influence of external electric field on time of nonlinear optical reorientational effect in nematics", Acta Physica Polonica A 103 (2003) 187-193. (pdf)
M.A. Karpierz, "Nonlinear properties of waveguides with twisted nematic liquid crystal," Acta Physica Polonica A 99 (2001) 161-173. (pdf)
T.R. Woliński, A.W. Domański, M.A. Karpierz, M. Sierakowski, "Liquid crystal fiber-optic systems in information processing," Opto-electronics Review 9 (2001) 274-279.
K. Brzd±kiewicz, W.K. Bajdecki, A. Kozanecka, M.A. Karpierz, "Reorientational nonlinear phenomena in thin nematic liquid crystals layer," Acta Physica Polonica A 99 (2001) 183-192.
M.A. Karpierz, A.W. Domański, M. Sierakowski, M. ¦wi³³o, T.R. Woliński, "Optical nonlinearity in liquid crystalline optical waveguides," Acta Physica Polonica A 95 (1999) 783-792. (pdf)