Polarization-dependent bandgap splitting and mode guiding in liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 3650-3659

  Ren, Guobin ^a   Shum, Ping ^a   Hu, Juanjuan ^a   Yu, Xia ^a   Gong, Yandong ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Liquid crystals; Photonic bandgap fiber; Polarization; Polarization maintaining fiber; Single mode single polarization

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ENERGY GAP; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; GUIDED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; LIGHT SOURCES; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; ROTATION; SCANNING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; WINDOWS;

BAND GAPS; CONFINEMENT LOSS; COUPLING LOSS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELDS; GUIDED MODES; GUIDING PROPERTIES; HIGH TRANSMISSIONS; ORTHOGONAL POLARIZATIONS; PHOTONIC BAND STRUCTURES; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBER; PHOTONIC BANDS; POLARIZATION AXIS; POLARIZATION EFFECTS; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING FIBER; ROTATION ANGLES; SINGLE-MODE SINGLE-POLARIZATION; SYMMETRY PROPERTIES; THEORETICAL INVESTIGATIONS; TRANSMISSION WINDOWS;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 60949097479     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2008.920125     Document Type: Article

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