Tunable photonic crystal fiber couplers with a thermo-responsive liquid crystal resonator

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 663-669

  Saitoh, Kunimasa ^a   Florous, Nikolaos J ^b   Varshney, Shailendra K ^a   Koshiba, Masanori ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b PerkinElmer Japan Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bandpass filter; Finite element method (FEM); Holey fiber; Liquid crystal (LC); Microstructured optical fiber; Photonic crystal fiber (PCF); Resonant coupling; Thermal sensors

Indexed keywords

BEAM PROPAGATION METHOD; DIRECTIONAL COUPLERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; RESONATORS; TEMPERATURE SENSORS;

PHOTO-THERMAL SENSING APPLICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER COUPLERS; THERMO-OPTICAL RESPONSE;

PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

EID: 42949175704     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2007.915276     Document Type: Article

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