Temperature-sensitive photonic liquid crystal fiber modal interferometer

IEEE Photonics Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1855-1860

  Milenko, Karolina ^a,b,c   Wolinski, Tomasz R ^a   Shum, Perry Ping ^b   Hu, Dora Juan Juan ^c  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Fiber optics; modal interferometers; nematic liquid crystal; optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; photonic crystal fibers; temperature sensing

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; EXTERNAL TEMPERATURE; LIQUID-CRYSTAL FIBERS; OPTICAL FIBER DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBER SENSOR; TEMPERATURE SENSING; TEMPERATURE-SENSITIVE;

CRYSTAL WHISKERS; FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETERS; NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 84867341352     PISSN: 19430655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2215583     Document Type: Article

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