Highly tunable large core single-mode liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber

Author

Alkeskjold, Thomas T. ; Lægsgaard, Jesper ; Bjarklev, Anders ; Hermann, D.S. ; Broeng, Jes ; Li, Jun ; Gauza, Sebastian ; Wu, Shin-Tson

Author_Institution

COM.DTU Dept. of Commun., Tech. Univ. of Denmark, Lyngby

fYear

2006

fDate

21-26 May 2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We demonstrate a highly tunable photonic bandgap fiber, which has a core diameter of 25 mm, and a bandgap tuning sensitivity of 27 nm/degC at room temperature. The insertion loss is estimated to be less than 0.5 dB.

Keywords

liquid crystals; micro-optics; optical fibre losses; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; bandgap tuning; highly tunable fiber; large core fiber; liquid crystal fiber; photonic bandgap fiber; photonic crystal fibers; room temperature sensitivity; single-mode fiber; size 2 mum; temperature 293 K to 298 K; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical filters; Optical sensors; Optical tuning; Photonic band gap; Photonic bandgap fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Temperature sensors; (060.2340) Fiber optics components; (230.3990) Microstructure devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2006 and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2006. Conference on

Conference_Location

Long Beach, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-55752-813-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEO.2006.4627627

Filename

4627627