Optical devices based on liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibres

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 20, 2003, Pages 2589-2596

  Larsen, Thomas Tanggaard ^a   Bjarklev, Anders ^a   Hermann, David Sparre ^b   Broeng, Jes ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FIBER OPTICS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL SWITCHES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BANDGAP FIBERS; MICROSTRUCTURE DEVICES; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 2442436562     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002589     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. D. B. Keck, R. D. Maurer, and P. C. Schultz, "On the ultimate lower limit of attenuation in glass optical waveguides," Appl. Phys. Lett. 22, 307-309 (1973).
2. R. Syms and J. Cozens, Optical Guided Waves and Devices, (McGraw-Hill Book Company England, 1992).
3. J. C. Knight, J. Broeng, T. A. Birks, and P. St J. Russell, "Photonic bandgap guidance in optical fibers," Science 283, 1476-1478 (1998).
4. E. Yablonovitch, "Inhibited spontaneous emission in solid-state physics and electronics," Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 2059-2062 (1987).
5. J. D. Joannopoulos, R. D. Meade, and J. N. Winn, Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light, (Princeton Univ. Press, 1995).
6. P. Russell, "Photonic crystal fibers," Science 299, 358-362 (2003).
7. K. P. Hansen, et al., "Highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with zero-dispersion at 1.55μm," Optical Fiber Communication Conference (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2002) PDFA9.
8. R.F. Cregan et al., "Single-mode photonic band gap guidance of light in air," Science 285, 1537-1539 (1999).
9. 2 laser transmission," Nature 420, 650-653 (2002).
10. J. Limpert, et al., "High-power air-clad large-mode-area photonic crystal fiber laser," Opt Express 11, 818 (2003), http://www.onticsexpress. org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-7-818
11. J. Jasapara, R. Bise, T. Her, and J. Nicholson, "Effect of Mode Cut-Off on Dispersion in Photonic Bandgap Fibers," Optical Fiber Communication Conference ThI3 (2003).
12. P. S. Westbrook, et al., "Cladding-mode resonances in hybrid polymer-silica microstructured optical fiber gratings," IEEE Photonics Technol. Lett. 12, (2000).
13. B. J. Eggleton, C. Kerbage, P. S. Westbrook, R. S. Windeler, and A. Hale, "Microstructured optical fiber devices", Optics Express 9, 698-713 (2001).
14. E. Yablonovitch, "Liquid versus photonics crystals," Nature 401, 539-541 (1999).
15. K. Busch and S. John, "Liquid-Crystal Photonic-Band-Gap Materials: The Tuneable Electromagnetic Vacuum," Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 967-970 (1999).
16. C. Wenyi, A. Munoz, P. Palffy-Muhoray, and B. Taheri, "Lasing in a three-dimensional photonics crystal of the liquid crystal blue phase IL" Nature Materials 1, 111-113 (2002).
17. P. G. de Gennes and J. Prost, The Physics of liquid crystals, 2nd edition, (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993).
18. S. Chandrasekhar, Liqid crystals, (Cambridge University Press, 1977).
19. P. Rudquist, M. Buivydas, L. Komitov, and S. T. Lagerwall, "Linear electro-optic effect based on flexoelectricity in a cholesteric with sign change of dielectric anisotropy," J. Appl. Phys. 76, (1994).
20. H. -S. Kitzerow, B. Liu, F. Xu, and P. P. Crooker, "Effect on chirality on liquid crystals in capillary tubes with parallel and perpendicular anchoring," Phys. Rev. E 54, 568-575, (1996).
21. S. K. Lo, L. M. Galarneau, D. J. Rogers, and S. R. Flom, "Smectic Liquid Crystal Waveguides with cylindrical Geometry," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 201, 137-145 (1991).
22. J. T. Mang, K. Sakamoto, and S. Kumar, "Smectic Layer Orientation in Confined Geometries," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 223, 133-142 (1992).
23. S. Kralj and S. Zumer, "Smectic-A structures in submicrometer cylindrical cavities," Phys. Rev. E, 54(2), 1610-1617 (1996).
24. K. Abeeluck, N. M. Litchinitser, C. Headley, and B. J. Eggleton, "Analysis of spectral characteristics of photonic bandgap waveguides," Opt Express 10, 1320-1333 (2002). http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm? URI=OPEX-10-23-1320
25. J. B. Jensen, et al. "Photonic Crystal Fibre based evanescent-wave sensor for detection of aqueous solutions," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C., 2003).
26. V. K. Gupta, J. J. Skaife, T. B. Dubrowsky, and N. L. Abbott, "Optical Amplification of Ligand-Receptor Binding Using Liquid Crystals," Science 278, 2077-2080 (1998)