Liquid crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fibers for electric field intensity measurements

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 2628-2635

  Mathews, Sunish ^a   Farrell, Gerald ^a   Semenova, Yuliya ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRIC LINES; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; FIBERS; LIQUID CRYSTALS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITIES; ELECTRIC FIELD INTENSITY MEASUREMENT; HIGH ELECTRIC FIELDS; LIQUID CRYSTAL INFILTRATED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; OPERATING WAVELENGTH; REFLECTIVE TYPE; SENSING MECHANISM; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ELECTRIC SENSING DEVICES;

EID: 79958865144     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.002628     Document Type: Article

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