Title :
Tunable highly birefringent bandgap-guiding liquid-crystal microstructured fibers
Author :
Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C. ; Kriezis, Emmanouil E. ; Tsiboukis, Theodoros D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki
Abstract :
A new type of nematic liquid-crystal infiltrated photonic bandgap-guiding fiber for single polarization or high-birefringence guidance is proposed. Numerical studies demonstrate that modal birefringence can be tuned by proper selection of the structural and material parameters as well as by the application of an external electric field in conjunction with the specific liquid-crystal anchoring conditions
Keywords :
birefringence; nematic liquid crystals; optical fibre polarisation; optical tuning; photonic band gap; birefringence; nematic liquid-crystal microstructured fibers; photonic bandgap; Birefringence; Liquid crystals; Optical devices; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical sensors; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Highly birefringent (HB) fibers; nematic liquid crystals (LCs); photonic crystal fibers; polarization-maintaining (PM) fibers;
Journal_Title :
Lightwave Technology, Journal of
DOI :
10.1109/JLT.2006.878495
