Guilhem Poy from Faculty of mathematics and Physics at University of Ljubljana and Slobodan Žumer from Jozef Stefan Institute in collaboration with Andrew Hess and Ivan Smalyukh from University of Colorado in Boulder published the paper Chirality-enhanced periodic self-focusing of light in birefringent soft media in Physical Review Letters. It presents numerical, experimental and theoretical evidence of chirality enhanced nonlinear optical response of frustrated chiral nematics. In achiral nematics, the reorientation of molecules around laser beams with appropriate power is responsible for the generation of spatial optical solitons called "nematicons". In unwounded chiral nematics, the frustration caused by a confinement incompatible with their lowest-energy states allows a relatively weak light to locally destabilize the initially uniform orientational fields and thus boost their nonlinear optical responses. Our research findings are expected to allow new self-focusing based applications.