Optically controllable side-polished fiber attenuator with photoresponsive liquid crystal overlay

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19988-19995

  Hsiao, Vincent K S ^a   Li, Zhen ^b   Chen, Zhe ^c   Peng, Peng Chun ^d   Tang, Jieyuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHI NAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Power Generation of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIQUID CRYSTALS; TUNING;

ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; INDUCED PHASE TRANSITION; LIGHT TRANSPARENT; PHOTO-IRRADIATION; PHOTO-RESPONSIVE; PHOTORESPONSIVE LIQUID CRYSTALS; SIDE-POLISHED FIBER; TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS;

EVANESCENT FIELDS;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTAL; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LENSES; LIGHT; LIQUID CRYSTALS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 70749108774     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019988     Document Type: Article

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