Continuously tunable all-in-fiber devices based on thermal and electrical control of negative dielectric anisotropy liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 497-503

  Wei, Lei ^a   Eskildsen, Lars ^a   Weirich, Johannes ^a   Scolari, Lara ^a   Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard ^b   Bjarklev, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ENERGY GAP; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION;

ELECTRICAL CONTROL; IN-FIBER DEVICES; NEGATIVE DIELECTRIC ANISOTROPY; POLARIZATION CONTROL; POLARIZATION SENSITIVITY; TEMPERATURE RANGE; TUNABLE WAVE PLATE; WAVELENGTH RANGES;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 61349130713     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.000497     Document Type: Article

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