Title :
Tunable highly-birefringent Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers
Author :
Ertman, Slawomir ; Czapla, A. ; Nowecka, K. ; Lesiak, P. ; Domanski, A.W. ; Wolinski, T.R. ; Dabrowski, Roman
Author_Institution :
Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw
Abstract :
Temperature tunable highly-birefringent (HB) photonic liquid crystal fibers (PLCFs) based on commercially available (Blazephotonics PM-1550-01) HB photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals (LCs) are demonstrated. The wavelength scanning technique was used to measure group and phase birefringence along with its wavelength dependence and the method was also adapted to intermodal birefringence measurements. It was found that selective infiltration of the HB PCF fiber with a LC changes its birefringence sign of the fiber. Since refractive indices of LCs depend on temperature, thermally-induced birefringence tuning in PLCFs is possible.
Keywords :
birefringence; nematic liquid crystals; photonic crystals; refractive index; Blazephotonics PM-1550-01; highly-birefringent; infiltration; intermodal birefringence measurements; nematic liquid crystals; photonic liquid crystal fibers; refractive indices; temperature tunable; wavelength scanning; Birefringence; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Photonic crystal fibers; Wavelength measurement; Liquid crystals; Optical distance measurements; Optical fiber measurement applications; Optical fiber polarization;
Conference_Titel :
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007. IMTC 2007. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Warsaw
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0588-2
DOI :
10.1109/IMTC.2007.379052
