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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Nottingham
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0235-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0236-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2006.248458
