Nematic and blue phase liquid crystals for temperature stabilization and active optical tuning of silicon photonic devices (Presentation Recording)

Joanna N Ptasinski; Iam Choon Khoo; Yeshaiahu Fainman

doi:10.1117/12.2187087

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5 October 2015 Nematic and blue phase liquid crystals for temperature stabilization and active optical tuning of silicon photonic devices (Presentation Recording)

Joanna N Ptasinski, Iam Choon Khoo, Yeshaiahu Fainman

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Proceedings Volume 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX; 95650D (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187087
Event: SPIE Organic Photonics + Electronics, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We describe the underlying theories and experimental demonstrations of passive temperature stabilization of silicon photonic devices clad in nematic liquid crystal mixtures, and active optical tuning of silicon photonic resonant structures combined with dye-doped nematic and blue phase liquid crystals. We show how modifications to the resonator device geometry allow for not only enhanced tuning of the resonator response, but also aid in achieving complete athermal operations of silicon photonic circuits. [Ref.: I.C. Khoo, "DC-field-assisted grating formation and nonlinear diffractions in methyl-red dye-doped blue phase liquid crystals," Opt. Lett. 40, 60-63 (2015); J. Ptasinski, I.C. Khoo, and Y. Fainman, "Enhanced optical tuning of modified-geometry resonators clad in blue phase liquid crystals," Opt. Lett. 39, 5435-5438 (2014); J. Ptasinski, I.C. Khoo, and Y. Fainman, "Passive Temperature Stabilization of Silicon Photonic Devices Using Liquid Crystals," Materials 7(3), 2229-2241 (2014)].

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Joanna N Ptasinski, Iam Choon Khoo, and Yeshaiahu Fainman "Nematic and blue phase liquid crystals for temperature stabilization and active optical tuning of silicon photonic devices (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9565, Liquid Crystals XIX, 95650D (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187087

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