Temperature tuning of polarization mode dispersion in single-core and two-core photonic liquid crystal fibers

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-31

  Lesiak, P ^a   Wolinski T R ^a   Brzdakiewicz K ^a   Nowecka, K ^a   Ertman, S ^a   Karpierz, M ^a   Domanski A W ^a   Dabrowski R ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Birefringence; Liquid crystals; Photonics crystal fibers; Polarization mode dispersion

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); FIBERS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

HIGHER-ORDER MODES; MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION(PMD); POLARIZATION PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE TUNING; TEMPERATURE-INDUCED;

HOLEY FIBERS;

EID: 33846339340     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11772-006-0051-8     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. T.R. Woliński, "Polarimetric optical fibers and sensors", in Progress in Optics, Vol. XL, pp. 1-75, edited by Emil Wolf, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 2000.
2. T.R. Woliński, "Polarization phenomena in optical systems", in Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering, pp. 2150-2175, edited by R.G. Diggers, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 2003.
3. T.R. Woliński P. Lesiak, R. Da̧browski, J. Kȩdzierski, and E. Nowinowski, "Polarization mode dispersion in all elliptical liquid crystal-core fiber", Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 421, 175-186 (2004).
4. T.T. Larsen, A. Bjarklev, D.S. Hermann, and J. Broeng, "Optical devices based on liquid crystal photonic bandgap", Optics Express 11, 2589-2596 (2003).
5. T.R. Woliński, K. Szaniawska, K. Bondarczuk, P. Lesiak, A.W. Domański, R. Da̧browski, E. Nowinowski-Kruszelnicki, and J. Wójcik, "Propagation properties of photonic crystals fibers filled with nematic liquid crystals", Opto-Electron. Rev. 13, 59-64 (2005).
6. F. Du, Y.Q. Lu, and S.T. Wu, "Electrically tunable liquid-crystal photonic crystal fiber", Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 2181-2183 (2004).
7. th Int. Conf. Optics of Liquid Crystals, Florida, 2-7 Oct., 2005 (invited paper), Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 2006 (accepted).
8. J.C. Knight, "Photonic crystal fibers", Nature 424, 847-851 (2003).
9. J.C. Knight, T. Birks, B. Mangan, and P. Russell, "Photonic crystal fibers: new solutions in fiber optics", Optics and Photonics News 13, 26-30 (2002).
10. R. Buczyński, "Photonic crystal fibers", Acta Physica Polonica A 106, 141-167 (2004).
11. J.A. Reyes-Cervantes, J.A. Reyes-Avendano, and P. Halevi, "Electrical tuning of a photronic crystal infilled with a liquid crystal", Proc. SPIE 5511, 50-60 (2004).
12. C.L. Xu, W-P. Huang, M. Stern, and S.K. Chaudhuri, "Full vectorial mode calculation by finite-difference method", IEEE Proc. Pt. J: Optoelectron. 141, 281-286 (1994).
13. W.J. Bock, A.W. Domański, and T.R. Woliński, "Influence of high hydrostatic pressure on beat length in highly birefringent single-mode bow tie fibers", Appl. Optics 29, 3484 (1990).
14. J. Schirmer, P. Kohns, A. Muravski, S. Yakovenko, V. Bezborodov, R. Dabrowski, and P. Adomenas, "Birefringence and refractive indices dispersion of different liquid crystalline structures", Mol. Crys. Liq. Crys. 307, 17-42 (1997).
15. T.R. Woliński and A.W. Domański, "Polarization mode dispersion in birefringent optical fibers", Acta Physica Polonica A 103, 211-219 (2003).