High-performance side-polished fibers and applications as liquid crystal clad fiber polarizers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 1554-1558

  Ma, Ssu Pin ^b   Tseng, Shiao Min ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Homemade polisher; Liquid crystal; Long curvature radius; Negligible loss; Polarizer

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; LIGHT EXTINCTION; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL COATINGS; POLISHING;

INSERTION LOSSES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 0031209885     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/50.618389     Document Type: Article

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