Electric field induced polarization effects in AgPO3/silica photonic bandgap fiber

Author

Konidakis, Ioannis ; Pissadakis, Stavros

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Struct. & Laser (IESL), Found. for Res. & Technol.-Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece

fYear

2013

fDate

23-27 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In this paper we report on the application of external electric field and its effect on the guiding properties of composite AgPO₃-glass/silica photonic bandgap fibers. The electrical field applied induces silver clustering and polarisation effects in the soft phosphate glass inclusion, leading to the formation of silver induced plasmonic band at the short length guiding region. Transmission characteristics of the composite photonic crystal fibers revealed introduction of various polarization states upon exposure of fibers on external electric field.

Keywords

composite materials; electric field effects; holey fibres; photon polarisation; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; plasmonics; AgPO₃; composite photonic crystal fibers; electric field induced polarization effects; glass photonic bandgap fiber; short length guiding region; silica photonic bandgap fiber; silver clustering; silver induced plasmonic band; soft phosphate glass inclusion; transmission characteristics; Electric fields; Glass; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Plasmons; Silicon compounds; Silver; electric field; phosphate glass; photonic bandgap fiber; silver plasmon; thermal poling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2013 15th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cartagena

ISSN

2161-2056

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2013.6602968

Filename

6602968