Electro-optical switch and continuously tunable filter based on a Bragg grating in a planar waveguide with a liquid crystal overlayer

Optical Engineering

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 2890-2898

  Sirleto, Laigi ^a   Coppola, Giuseppe ^b   Breglio, Giovanni ^b   Abbate, Giancarlo ^b   Righini, Giancarlo C ^a   Otón, José Manuel ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bragg grating; Liquid crystal; Optical switch; Optical tunable filter

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS;

TUNABLE FILTERS;

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 0036863107     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1512305     Document Type: Article

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