Author :
Wang, Yiping ; Bartelt, Hartmut ; Ecke, Wolfgang ; Moerl, Klaus ; Lehmann, Hartmut ; Schroeder, Kerstin ; Willsch, Reinhardt ; Kobelke, Jens ; Rothhardt, Manfred ; Spittel, Ron ; Shan, Liye ; Brueckner, Sven ; Jin, Wei ; Tan, Xiaoling ; Jin, Long
Abstract :
We report a thermo-optic switching effect with a high extinction ratio of 30 dB by means of filling a fluid into air holes of a solid-core photonic crystal fiber (PCF). Such an effect can perform a turn on-off operation of the transmitted light via a small temperature adjustment of ??10??C. The switching function attributes to the absorption of the filled fluid in combination with the interaction between the core mode and the excited ??fluid rod?? modes, resulting from the thermo-optic effect of the filled fluid.
Keywords :
holey fibres; microfluidics; optical switches; photonic crystals; thermo-optical effects; air holes; core mode; excited fluid rod modes; extinction ratio; filled fluid absorption; fluid-filled photonic crystal fiber; optical switches; solid-core photonic crystal fiber; thermo-optic switching effect; transmitted light; Optical switches; photonic crystal fibers (PCFs);
