Biased liquid crystal infiltrated photonic bandgap fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 4442-4453

  Weirich, Johannes ^a   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^a   Scolari, Lara ^a   Wei, Lei ^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

CAPILLARITY; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; LIQUIDS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; PERMITTIVITY; PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

COUPLED PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIELECTRIC PERMITTIVITIES; ELEMENT-BASED; GENERALIZED EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS; LIQUID CRYSTAL ALIGNMENT; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 62549113403     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.004442     Document Type: Article

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