Tunable filter based on two cascaded photonic liquid crystal fibers

Liquid-crystal-based terahertz tunable Solc filter.

A broadly tunable terahertz Solc-type birefringence filter is demonstrated. The first central passband frequency of the filter can be continuously tuned from 0.176 to 0.793 THz using magnetically controlled birefringence in nematic liquid crystals. The insertion loss of the present device is about 5 dB.

Tunable polarisation-maintaining filter based on liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibre

Tunable two-dimensional photonic crystals using liquid-crystal infiltration

The photonic band gap of a two-dimensional photonic crystal is continuously tuned using the temperature dependent refractive index of a liquid crystal. Liquid crystal E7 was infiltrated into the air pores of a macroporous silicon photonic crystal with a triangular lattice pitch of 1.58 mm and a band gap wavelength range of 3.3–5.7 mm. After infiltration, the band gap for the H polarized field s...

Two-mode photonic crystal fibers.

Index-guiding photonic crystal fibers with appropriate structural parameters support the fundamental and second order modes over a practically infinite wavelength range. The polarization principal axes and mode field patterns of the modes can be made stable by having different size air-holes along the orthogonal directions. The potential applications of such two-mode PCFs are discussed.

Investigation of thermal tunable nano metallic photonic crystal filter with mirror symmetry

Using the transfer matrix method, the effect of temperature on thetransmission spectra of thermal tunable nano metallic photonic crystal filter has beeninvestigated. Three different materials H (high refractive index material), L (lowrefractive index material) and M as a metallic layer, have been used to make thisstructure. M layer is considered to be Silver. The complex refractive index of Sil...