Index guiding photonic liquid crystal fibers for practical applications

Journal of Lightwave Technology

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1208-1214

  Ertman, Sławomir ^a   Rodríaguez, Aura Higuera ^a   Tefelska, Marzena M ^a   Chychłowski, Miłosz S ^a   Pysz, Dariusz ^b   Buczyńaski, Ryszard ^c   Nowinowski Kruszelnicki, Edward ^d   Da̧browski, Roman ^d   Woliński, Tomasz R ^a  

^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

Birefringence; liquid crystals; photonic crystal fibers; tunable fiber optics devices

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND PROPAGATION; EFFECTIVE REFRACTIVE INDEX; FIBER CORES; GUIDING PROPERTIES; INDEX GUIDING; LIQUID-CRYSTAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION DEPENDENT LOSS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; STANDARD FIBERS; TUNABLE FIBER OPTICS DEVICES;

BIREFRINGENCE; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

LIQUID CRYSTALS;

EID: 84858992149     PISSN: 07338724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2011.2172393     Document Type: Article

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