title: Improved bending property of half-filled photonic crystal fiber.
abstract: A half-filling technique was demonstrated to improve the bending properties of a fluid-filled photonic crystal fiber. Such a technique can realize to fill selectively a fluid into half of air holes in a PCF. The bending properties of the half-filled PCF are quite different from those of the fully-filled PCF. Distinct bending properties were observed when the half-filled PCF was bent toward different fiber orientations. Especially, the transmission spectrum of the half-filled PCF was hardly affected while the fiber was bent toward the filled-hole orientation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kowloon Hong Kong, China. ypwang@china.com
authors.forename: Yiping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xiaoling
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.forename: Shujing
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Diqing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Ying
authors.forename: Yeuk Lai
authors.initials: YL
authors.lastname: Hoo