Tunable highly-birefringent photonic liquid crystal fibers

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ertman, Slawomir ^a   Czapla, Aleksandra ^a   Nowecka, Katarzyna ^a   Lesiak, Piotr ^a   Domanski, Andrzej W ^a   Wolinski, Tomasz R ^a   Dabrowski, Roman ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Optical distance measurements; Optical fiber measurement applications; Optical fiber polarization

Indexed keywords

BIREFRINGENCE; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

OPTICAL DISTANCE MEASUREMENTS; OPTICAL FIBER MEASUREMENT APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL FIBER POLARIZATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 34648819324     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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