An efficiently tunable microring resonator using a liquid crystal-cladded polymer waveguide

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Cai, Tao ^a   Liu, Qingkun ^a   Shi, Yaocheng ^a   Chen, Pengxin ^a   He, Sailing ^a,b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED VOLTAGES; ELECTRICALLY TUNABLE POLYMERS; INTERDIGITAL ELECTRODE; LARGE TUNING RANGE; MICRORING RESONATOR; MOLECULAR ALIGNMENT; OPERATING VOLTAGE; POLYMER WAVEGUIDES; TUNABILITIES;

LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL RESONATORS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS;

POLYMERS;

EID: 77957150614     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3492848     Document Type: Article

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