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

    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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