Photo and electrical tunable effects in photonic liquid crystal fiber.
This work demonstrates photo alignment and electrical tuning effects in photonic liquid crystal fiber (PLCF). Applying voltages of 0 approximately 130V and 250 approximately 400V shifts the short and long wavelength edges of the transmission bands by about 45 nm and 74 nm toward longer wavelengths, respectively. An electro-tunable notch filter is formed in the PLCF without the use of gratings. The range of tunability of the notch filter is around 180 nm with an applied voltage of 140 approximately 240 V. This photo-induced alignment yields a permanently tilted LC structure in PCF, which reduces the threshold voltage, and can be further modulated by electric fields. The polarization dependent loss and fast response time of photo-aligned PLCF is also demonstrated. The finite-difference frequency-domain method is adopted to analyze the shift of the transmission bandgap, and the simulation results are found to correlate well with experimental data.
Lee
Chun-Hong
CH
Department of Photonics, National Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, ROC.
Chen
Ching-Hsiang
CH
Kao
Chia-Lung
CL
Yu
Chin-Ping
CP
Yeh
Szu-Ming
SM
Cheng
Wood-Hi
WH
Lin
Tsung-Hsien
TH