title: Selectively liquid-filled photonic crystal fibers for optical devices.
abstract: We have theoretically investigated the propagation properties of two kinds of selectively liquid-filled PCFs. For internally liquid-filled PCFs, the outer air-hole layers function as the second cladding to reduce the penetration of the light field while the inner liquid-hole layers can still induce the tunable PBG effect. The complementary structures, externally liquid-filled PCFs, can be used in long-period fiber gratings to decrease the utilization of the lossy liquids and remain single-mode operation for the existence of the inner air-hole layers. The confinement losses of both selectively liquid-filled PCFs are shown to be efficiently reduced due to the outer or inner air-hole layers, which is quite useful for further applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Photonics, Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, and Advanced Crystal Opto-electronic Research Center, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 80424, R O C. cpyu@faculty.nsysu.edu.tw
authors.forename: Chin-ping
authors.initials: CP
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Jia-hong
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Liou
mesh_terms: D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D003460:Crystallization / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D044085:Microfluidics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D055096:Optical Devices; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012996:Solutions
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions