• DocumentCode
    2240513
  • Title

    High thermal and electrical tunability of negative dielectric liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers

  • Author

    Wei, Lei ; Scolari, Lara ; Weirich, Johannes ; Alkeskjold, Thomas T. ; Eskildsen, Lars ; Bjarklev, Anders

  • Author_Institution
    COMDTU Dept. of Commun., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We infiltrate photonic crystal fibers with negative dielectric liquid crystals. 400 nm bandgap shift is obtained in the range 22degC-80degC and 119 nm shift of the long-wavelength bandgap edge is achieved by applying a voltage of 200Vrms.
  • Keywords
    dielectric materials; liquid crystals; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; bandgap shift; electrical tunability; negative dielectric liquid crystal; photonic bandgap fibers; photonic crystal fibers; temperature 22 C to 80 C; thermal tunability; voltage 200 V; wavelength 119 nm; wavelength 400 nm; Dielectric liquids; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystals; Optical devices; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; (060.5295) Photonic crystal fibers; (230.3720) Liquid-crystal devices;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4571640