Conference paper
Tunable photonic bandgap fiber based devices for optical networks
In future all optical networks one of the enabling technologies is tunable elements including reconfigurable routers, switches etc. Thus, the development of a technology platform that allows construction of tuning components is critical. Lately, microstructured optical fibers, filled with liquid crystals, have proven to be a candidate for such a platform.
Microstructured optical fibers offer unique wave-guiding properties that are strongly related to the design of the air holes in the cladding of the fiber. These wave-guiding properties may be altered by filling the air holes with a material, for example a liquid crystal that changes optical properties when subjected to, for example, an optical or an electrical field.
The utilization of these two basic properties allows design of tunable optical devices for optical networks. In this work, we focus on applications of such devices and discuss recent results.
| Language: | English |
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| Publisher: | IEEE |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Pages: | 140-143 |
| Proceedings: | 7th International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks |
| ISBN: | 0780392361 and 9780780392366 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ICTON.2005.1505770 |
| ORCIDs: | Rottwitt, Karsten |
All-optical networks Crystal microstructure Liquid crystals Optical design Optical fiber networks Optical fibers Optical switches Optical tuning Photonic bandgap fibers Photonic crystal fibers air hole crystal microstructure fiber cladding liquid crystal liquid crystal devices microstructured optical fiber optical fibre cladding optical fibre filters optical network optical planar waveguides optical tuning photonic band gap photonic bandgap fiber reconfigurable router tunable element tunable optical device waveguiding property
