Electric Field Sensing With Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers Based on Micro-Electrodes Systems

Author

Tefelska, Marzena M. ; Wolinski, Tomasz R. ; Ertman, Slawomir ; Milenko, Karolina ; Laczkowski, R. ; Siarkowska, Agata ; Domanski, Andrzej W.

Author_Institution

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

Volume

33

Issue

12

fYear

2015

fDate

June15, 15 2015

Firstpage

2405

Lastpage

2411

Abstract

The paper describes four different types of micro-electrodes systems for dynamic electric field sensing with photonic crystal fibers infiltrated with liquid crystals. The shortest switching time ~20 ms was achieved by using a flexible-flat-cable electrode system. A capillary system with four micro-electrodes (τ ~ 36 ms) appeared to be the most convenient to operate with photonic liquid crystal fibers. The capillary system was also theoretically analyzed and presented in this paper.

Keywords

electric field measurement; electro-optical devices; fibre optic sensors; holey fibres; liquid crystals; microelectrodes; photonic crystals; capillary system; dynamic electric field sensing; flexible-flat-cable electrode system; microelectrode systems; photonic liquid crystal fibers; switching time; time 20 ms; time 36 ms; Copper; Electric fields; Electrodes; Glass; Liquid crystals; Silicon compounds; Switches; External electric field; external electric field; liquid crystals; photonic crystal fibers; photoniccrystal fibers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Lightwave Technology, Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0733-8724

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JLT.2014.2379691

Filename

6983541