Photo and electrical tunable effects in photonic liquid crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 2814-2821

  Lee, Chun Hong ^a   Chen, Ching Hsiang ^a   Kao, Chia Lung ^a   Yu, Chin Ping ^a   Yeh, Szu Ming ^a   Cheng, Wood Hi ^a   Lin, Tsung Hsien ^a  

^a NATIONAL SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NOTCH FILTERS;

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BAND GAPS; ELECTRICAL TUNING; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FAST RESPONSE TIME; FINITE-DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY-DOMAIN METHOD; LIQUID-CRYSTAL FIBERS; LONG WAVELENGTH; PHOTO ALIGNMENT; PHOTO-INDUCED; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; SIMULATION RESULT; TRANSMISSION BAND; TUNABILITIES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 76149096847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.002814     Document Type: Article

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