Design and analysis of thermally tunable liquid crystal filled hybrid photonic crystal fiber coupler

Dora Juan Juan Hu; Ping Shum; Chao Lu; Xiwen Sun; Guobin Ren; Xia Yu; Guanghui Wang

doi:10.1016/j.optcom.2009.03.023

Design and analysis of thermally tunable liquid crystal filled hybrid photonic crystal fiber coupler

Dora Juan Juan Hu, Ping Shum, Chao Lu, Xiwen Sun, Guobin Ren, Xia Yu, Guanghui Wang

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Abstract

We propose a novel tunable photonic crystal fiber (PCF) coupler scheme, that the light is coupled between a total internal reflection (TIR) guiding core and a photonic bandgap (PBG) guiding core. By introducing the thermo-optic responsive nematic liquid crystals (NLC) into the air holes around the PBG core, the hybrid PCF based coupler exhibits enhanced thermal tunability. The thermo-optical characteristics of the proposed coupler are numerically studied using finite element method (FEM) and beam propagation method (BPM). The proposed design can find promising applications in filtering and sensing devices.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2343-2347
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	282
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2009.03.023
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2009

Keywords

Beam propagation method (BPM)
Finite element method (FEM)
Hybrid photonic crystal fiber (PCF)
Nematic liquid crystal (NLC)
Tunable coupler

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

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