Analysis of one-dimensional photonic band gap structures with a liquid crystal defect towards development of fiber-optic tunable wavelength filters

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 430-436

  Del Villar, Ignacio ^a   Matías, Ignacio R ^a   Arregui, Francisco J ^a   Claus, Richard O ^b  

^a PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL DEVICES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MIRRORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTROSTATIC SELF-ASSEMBLY METHOD (ESAM); PHOTONIC BAND GAP;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 0742310710     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.000430     Document Type: Article

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