Title

Low Loss Liquid Crystal Photonic Bandgap Fiber in the Near-Infrared Region

Authors

Authors

L. Scolari; L. Wei; S. Gauza; S. T. Wu;A. Bjarklev

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Opt. Rev.

Keywords

photonic bandgap fiber; liquid crystals; absorption loss; all-in-fiber; devices; tunability; near-infrared region; Optics

Abstract

We infiltrate a perdeuterated liquid crystal with a reduced infrared absorption in a photonic crystal fiber. The H atoms of this liquid crystal were substituted with D atoms in order to move the vibration bands which cause absorption loss to longer wavelengths and therefore reduce the absorption in the spectral range of 1-2 mu m. We achieve in the middle of the near-infrared transmission bandgap the lowest loss (about 1 dB) ever reported for this kind of devices. (C) 2011 The Japan Society of Applied Physics

Journal Title

Optical Review

Volume

18

Issue/Number

1

Publication Date

1-1-2011

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

114

Last Page

116

WOS Identifier

WOS:000287248800024

ISSN

1340-6000

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