Tunable highly birefringent solid-core photonic liquid crystal fibers

Abstract

Experimental results of temperature-, electric field-, and hydrostatic-pressureinduced effects in solid-core highly birefringent photonic liquid crystal fibers are presented. Selective infiltration of the photonic crystal fibers with liquid crystals was found to induce birefringence axes switching resulting in a variety of tunable photonic liquid crystal fibersbased devices.

Propagation Effects in Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers with a Complex Structure

“…Light propagation can be easily modified in photonic crystal fibers either by a special fiber structure design or by filling these microstructured fibers with various materials of particular properties [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9].…”

Frequency tunability of solid-core photonic crystal fibers filled with nanoparticle-doped liquid crystals

“…If typical index-guiding PCFs are infiltrated with liquid crystals, they start guiding light by the bandgap effect, since liquid crystals have refractive indices higher than that of silica. Based on liquid crystal filled PCFs (LCPCF), devices which can be thermally, electrically or optically tuned, have been demonstrated [9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. Among these, we find, for example, devices for tuning, scrambling and controlling the polarization [11,19] tunable Gaussian filters for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) [14], tunable electrically and mechanically induced gratings [15], tunable notch filters [16], devices with tunable birefringence [18] and devices for single-polarization and high-birefringence guidance [20].…”

Nanoparticles Doped Liquid Crystal Filled Photonic Bandgap Fibers

“…If index-guiding PCFs are infiltrated with LCs, they start guiding light by the bandgap effect, because LCs have refractive indices higher than that of silica. Based on LC filled PCFs, devices for tuning, scrambling and controlling polarization, birefringence and attenuation have been demonstrated [5][6][7][8][9], together with tunable Gaussian filters for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) [10], tunable electrically induced gratings [11], and tunable notch filters [12].…”