• DocumentCode
    2702896
  • Title

    Polarisation-maintaining and highly-briefringent liquid-crystal photonic crystal fibers

  • Author

    Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C. ; Kriezis, Emmanouil E.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotelian Univ. of Thessaloniki
  • Volume
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    18-22 June 2006
  • Firstpage
    255
  • Lastpage
    255
  • Abstract
    Numerical studies demonstrate that infiltration of index- or bandgap-guiding photonic crystal fibers with nematic liquid crystalline materials may allow for tunable operation, such as single-polarisation or controllable birefringence guidance
  • Keywords
    birefringence; nematic liquid crystals; optical fibre polarisation; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; refractive index; bandgap-guiding photonic crystal fibers; controllable birefringence guidance; highly-birefringent fibers; index-guiding photonic crystal fibers; liquid-crystal photonic crystal fibers; nematic liquid crystalline materials; polarisation-maintaining fibers; single-polarisation; tunable operation; Photonic crystal fibers; Polarization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Nottingham
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0235-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-0236-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICTON.2006.248458
  • Filename
    4013912