Liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber: Different bandgap transmissions at different temperature ranges

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 5321-5324

  Du, Jiangbing ^a,b   Liu, Yange ^a   Wang, Zhi ^a   Zou, Bing ^a   Liu, Bo ^a   Dong, Xiaoyi ^a  

^a NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY GAP; LIQUID CRYSTALS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

CLEARING POINT; EXTINCTION RATIOS; PHASE TRANSITION PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TEMPERATURE TUNING;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 60749100417     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.005321     Document Type: Article

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