Infiltration of photonic crystal fiber with liquid crystals

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6017, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Presnyakov, Vladimir V ^a,b   Liu, Zhijian J ^a   Chigrinov, Vladimir G ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Liquid crystal; Micro tubes; Photo alignment; Photonic crystal fiber; Telecommunication

Indexed keywords

GLASS FIBERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHOTONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TELECOMMUNICATION;

MICRO-TUBES; PHOTO-ALIGNMENT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; WAVEGUIDE PROPERTIES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33644802522     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.630994     Document Type: Conference Paper

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