Frequency tunability of solid-core photonic crystal fibers filled with nanoparticle-doped liquid crystals

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 3754-3764

  Scolari, Lara ^a   Gauza, Sebastian ^b   Xianyu, Haiqing ^b   Zhai, Lei ^b   Eskildsen, Lars ^a   Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard ^c   Wu, Shin Tson ^b   Bjarklev, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^c NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MODULATION; NANOPARTICLES; THRESHOLD VOLTAGE;

EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FREQUENCY TUNABILITY; GAIN EQUALIZATION; SHORT WAVELENGTHS; SILICA CAPILLARY; SOLID CORE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TUNABILITIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 61549142138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.003754     Document Type: Article

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