Title :
Electrooptical tuning of a ruby microsphere morphology dependent resonance in a liquid crystal medium
Author :
Webb, Kurt D. ; Murib, Mohammed S. ; Serpengüzel, Ali ; Beccherelli, Romeo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Koc Univ., Istanbul, Turkey
Abstract :
A simulation describing the shifts in resonant peaks of scattered light from a waveguide coupled microsphere resonator immersed in nematic liquid crystal is discussed.
Keywords :
electro-optical devices; light scattering; liquid crystal devices; nematic liquid crystals; optical resonators; optical tuning; optical waveguide components; ruby; Al2O3; electrooptical tuning; light scattering; liquid crystal medium; nematic liquid crystal; ruby microsphere morphology dependent resonance; waveguide coupled microsphere resonator; Electromagnetic scattering; Geometrical optics; Light scattering; Liquid crystals; Morphology; Optical coupling; Optical scattering; Refractive index; Resonance light scattering; Tuning;
Conference_Titel :
LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, 2009. LEOS '09. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Belek-Antalya
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3680-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1092-8081
DOI :
10.1109/LEOS.2009.5343224