Liquid crystal parameter analysis for tunable photonic bandgap fiber devices

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 4074-4087

  Weirich, Johannes ^a   Lægsgaard, Jesper ^a   Wei, Lei ^a   Alkeskjold, Thomas Tanggaard ^b   Wu, Thomas X ^c   Wu, Shin Tson ^c   Bjarklev, Anders ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL FILTERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ENERGY GAP; FIBER OPTIC COMPONENTS; FIBERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

BAND GAPS; DIRECTOR FIELDS; EXTERNAL ELECTRIC FIELD; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; MODE SIMULATION; OPTICAL PERMITTIVITY; SOLID CORE; TRANSMISSION SPECTRUMS; TUNABILITIES; WAVEPLATES;

PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS;

EID: 77749344725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.004074     Document Type: Article

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