Polarization properties of liquid-crystal infiltrated photonic crystal fibers

Author

Zografopoulos, Dimitrios C. ; Kriezis, Emmanouil E.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

22-26 June 2008

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

16

Abstract

The polarization properties of photonic crystal fibers infiltrated by nematic liquid crystals are investigated for various structural and material parameters. It is demonstrated that by proper design single-polarization or controllable highly-birefringent light guidance can be achieved. In addition, such favourable polarization properties may also be dynamically tuned via the application of an external field or the variation of the operating temperature.

Keywords

birefringence; holey fibres; nematic liquid crystals; optical fibre polarisation; photonic crystals; birefringent light guidance; infiltrated photonic crystal fibers; material parameters; nematic liquid crystals; polarization properties; structural parameters; Birefringence; Crystalline materials; Dispersion; Liquid crystal devices; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber devices; Optical fiber polarization; Optical propagation; Photonic band gap; Photonic crystal fibers; highly-birefringent fibers; nematic liquid crystals; photonic crystal fibers; single-polarization fibers; tuneable devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Transparent Optical Networks, 2008. ICTON 2008. 10th Anniversary International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2625-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2626-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTON.2008.4598576

Filename

4598576