Abstract
Nematicons, spatial solitons in nematic liquid crystals, are a convenient playground for soliton-based phenomena in nonlocal uniaxials. The fundamentals are reviewed and some recent advances illustrated, including bistability, symmetry breaking and random lasing.
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