Tunable Polarization Properties of Hybrid-Guiding Liquid-Crystal Photonic Crystal Fibers

Author

Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C. ; Kriezis, Emmanouil E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki

Volume

27

Issue

6

fYear

2009

fDate

3/15/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

773

Lastpage

779

Abstract

Tunable polarization properties in hybrid-guiding photonic crystal fibers infiltrated with nematic liquid-crystalline materials are theoretically investigated, both in the case of uniform switching of the liquid crystal molecules and for realistic nematic director patterns. It is demonstrated that the bandgap formation mechanism and the modal transmission properties in such fibers offer the possibility for electrically switchable, wavelength-selective single-polarization and/or zero to extremely high-birefringence guidance.

Keywords

birefringence; holey fibres; integrated optics; light polarisation; nematic liquid crystals; optical tuning; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; bandgap; high-birefringence guidance; hybrid-guiding photonic crystal fibers; liquid crystal molecule switching; modal transmission properties; nematic director patterns; nematic liquid-crystalline materials; tunable polarization properties; wavelength-selective single-polarization; Crystalline materials; Fiber nonlinear optics; Laser tuning; Liquid crystals; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical sensors; Photonic crystal fibers; Highly birefringent fibers; nematic liquid crystals; photonic crystal fibers (PCFs); single-polarization fibers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2008.928186

Filename

4814824