Tunable highly-birefringent Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibers

Author

Ertman, Slawomir ; Czapla, A. ; Nowecka, K. ; Lesiak, P. ; Domanski, A.W. ; Wolinski, T.R. ; Dabrowski, Roman

Author_Institution

Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw

fYear

2007

fDate

1-3 May 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Temperature tunable highly-birefringent (HB) photonic liquid crystal fibers (PLCFs) based on commercially available (Blazephotonics PM-1550-01) HB photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with nematic liquid crystals (LCs) are demonstrated. The wavelength scanning technique was used to measure group and phase birefringence along with its wavelength dependence and the method was also adapted to intermodal birefringence measurements. It was found that selective infiltration of the HB PCF fiber with a LC changes its birefringence sign of the fiber. Since refractive indices of LCs depend on temperature, thermally-induced birefringence tuning in PLCFs is possible.

Keywords

birefringence; nematic liquid crystals; photonic crystals; refractive index; Blazephotonics PM-1550-01; highly-birefringent; infiltration; intermodal birefringence measurements; nematic liquid crystals; photonic liquid crystal fibers; refractive indices; temperature tunable; wavelength scanning; Birefringence; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Optical fiber sensors; Optical propagation; Optical refraction; Optical sensors; Photonic crystal fibers; Wavelength measurement; Liquid crystals; Optical distance measurements; Optical fiber measurement applications; Optical fiber polarization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2007. IMTC 2007. IEEE

Conference_Location

Warsaw

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0588-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2007.379052

Filename

4258341