Temperature-Sensitive Photonic Liquid Crystal Fiber Modal Interferometer

Author

Milenko, Karolina ; Wolinski, Tomasz R. ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Hu, Dora Juan Juan

Author_Institution

Fac. of Phys., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland

Volume

4

Issue

5

fYear

2012

Firstpage

1855

Lastpage

1860

Abstract

In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and photonic liquid crystal fiber (PLCF) modal interferometers. The PLCF interferometer is fabricated by infiltrating a liquid crystal (LC) into the PCF and then splicing the effective PLCF between two single-mode fibers (SMF). By heating the PLCF interferometer, we present a possibility to tune optical properties of the propagating light. We also compare PCF- and PLCF-interferometer responses in the presence of changing external temperature conditions.

Keywords

fibre optic sensors; holey fibres; light propagation; liquid crystals; optical fibre fabrication; photonic crystals; modal interferometer; optical properties; photonic crystal fiber; propagating light; single-mode fibers; splicing; temperature-sensitive photonic liquid crystal fiber; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Photonic crystal fibers; Photonics; Fiber optics; modal interferometers; nematic liquid crystal; optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; photonic crystal fibers; temperature sensing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Journal, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1943-0655

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2215583

Filename

6295635