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In uniaxial soft matter with a reorientational nonlinearity, such as nematic liquid crystals, a light beam in the extraordinary polarization walks off its wavevector due to birefringence, while it undergoes self-focusing via an increase in refractive index and eventually forms a spatial soliton. Hereby the trajectory evolution of solitons in nematic liquid crystals- nematicons- in the presence of a linearly varying transverse orientation of the optic axis is analysed. In this study we use and compare two approaches: i) a slowly varying (adiabatic) approximation based on momentum conservation of the soliton in a Hamiltonian sense; ii) the Frank-Oseen elastic theory coupled with a fully vectorial and nonlinear beam propagation method. The models provide comparable results in such a non-homogeneously oriented uniaxial medium and predict curved soliton paths with either monotonic or non-monotonic curvatures. The minimal power needed to excite a solitary wave via reorientation remains essentially the same in both uniform and modulated cases.
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