Tunable broadband in-fiber polarizer based on photonic liquid crystal fiber

Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals

Volumn 502, Issue , 2009, Pages 87-98

  Ertman, Slawomir ^a   Wolinski, Tomasz R ^a   Pysz, Dariusz ^b   Buczynski, Ryszard ^c   Nowinowski Kruszelnicki, Edward ^d   Dabrowski, Roman ^d  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ukasiewicz Research Network Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d MILITARY UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; Liquid crystals; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarization

Indexed keywords

BROAD BANDS; IN-FIBER; LIQUID-CRYSTAL FIBERS; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PHASE BIREFRINGENCE; PLANAR ORIENTATION; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; TRANSVERSE ELECTRIC FIELD; TRANSVERSE ORIENTATION;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LOSSES; FIBERS; GLASS; LASER PULSES; LIGHT REFRACTION; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; POLARIZATION; REFRACTIVE INDEX; REFRACTOMETERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77955188504     PISSN: 15421406     EISSN: 15635287     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15421400902815779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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