• DocumentCode
    3506131
  • Title

    Nematic liquid crystal channel waveguides embedded in SiO2/Si grooves

  • Author

    d´Alessandro, Antonio ; Bellini, Bruno ; Donisi, D. ; Asquini, Rita

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Eng., La Sapienza Univ., Rome, Italy
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    22-24 June 2005
  • Firstpage
    275
  • Lastpage
    280
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate novel channel waveguides made of SiO2/Si grooves filled with liquid crystals. We investigated the polarization dependency of waveguides using the commercial nematic liquid crystal E7. The orthogonal polarization state, for which the optical electric field "sees" only the lower LC refractive index, was suppressed by 21 dB.
  • Keywords
    electro-optical devices; elemental semiconductors; integrated optics; liquid crystal devices; nematic liquid crystals; optical waveguides; refractive index; silicon; silicon compounds; SiO2-Si; SiO2/Si grooves; channel waveguides; lower LC refractive index; nematic liquid crystal E7; optical electric field; orthogonal polarization state; polarization dependency; Fiber nonlinear optics; Liquid crystals; Liquid waveguides; Nonlinear optics; Optical filters; Optical refraction; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Fibres and Optical Passive Components, 2005. Proceedings of 2005 IEEE/LEOS Workshop on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8949-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/WFOPC.2005.1462139
  • Filename
    1462139
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=3506131