Elliptical-core liquid crystal fibers

Agnieszka Szymanska; Tomasz R. Wolinski

doi:10.1117/12.409166

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13 December 2000 Elliptical-core liquid crystal fibers

Agnieszka Szymanska, Tomasz R. Wolinski

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Proceedings Volume 4239, Lightguides and their Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409166
Event: Lightguides and their Applications, 1999, Krasnobrod, Poland

Abstract

This paper presents analysis of light propagation in liquid crystal (LC) optical fiber waveguides with elliptical cores. In theory, the modal structure and its characteristics of the waveguides composed of extremely low-birefringence nematic liquid crystal acting as an elliptical fiber core and characterized by an index ellipsoid has been analyzed. The liquid crystalcore fiber waveguides have been modulated and simulated by using the Beam Propagation Method (BPM). Selected configurations of the nematic liquid crystal confined in the fiber core and their influence on modal structure of the anisotropic cylindrical waveguides have been analyzed. The theoretical analysis was accompanied by experiments with elliptical-core LC fibers in the polarimetric configuration. The results obtained indicate homogeneous LC orientation inside the elliptical core and as a consequence, in a certain temperature range, the LC waveguide acts as a fiber polarizer.

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Agnieszka Szymanska and Tomasz R. Wolinski "Elliptical-core liquid crystal fibers", Proc. SPIE 4239, Lightguides and their Applications, (13 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.409166

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