Optical waveguides and tunable devices made of a liquid crystal core in PDMS channels

A d'Alessandro, L Civita, R Asquini… - Liquid Crystals …, 2019 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We present photonic devices based on a nematic liquid crystals (NLC) infiltrated in
polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) channels, named LC: PDMS waveguides, for flexible photonic …

Low-loss, high-purity, and ultrabroadband all-fiber LP41 mode converter employing a mode-selective photonic lantern

L Chen, H Guo, Z Shi, W Chang, B Chen… - Chinese Optics …, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Broadband mode converters are essential devices for space-division and wavelength-
division multiplexing systems. There are great challenges in the generation of higher-order …

Liquid crystal fiber phase modulator

CSI Wong, JY Liu, KM Johnson - Proceedings of Optical Fiber …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the following, we present the fabrication techniques of the liquid crystal fibre phase
modulator using liquid crystal fibre (LCF), working theory and measurement on the fiber …

Low threshold optical attenuator based on electrically tunable liquid crystal cladding waveguide

R Panchal, A Sinha - Optics Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
We propose a multimode planar waveguide with polymer core of negative photoresist
AZ15nXT with an upper cladding of electrically tunable 4-cyano-4'-pentylbiphenyl (5CB) …

Temperature-controllable beam splitter and optical filter based on filling liquid crystal into both ends of photonic crystal fibres

J Wang, Y Liu, L Zhang, Y Jiang, J Ma, W Sun - Liquid Crystals, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We first presented an optical device of integrated beam splitter and filter based on the
photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) with both ends of the air-holes filled with liquid crystal (LCs) …

A novel 1× 2 wavelength routing switch based on a tunable hybrid liquid-crystal solc filter

R Hamdi, BE Benkelfat, Q Zou… - … on Photonics in …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A novel 1× 2 wavelength routing switch is introduced and analyzed. It is based on a tunable
hybrid liquid-crystal Solc filter and a polarization beamsplitter. The device can be set into the …

Optical Design of an LCoS-Based 1× 10 WSS with High Coupling Efficiency and Compact Light Paths

H Ji, Y Shan, Y Mo, Z Chen, D Ma - Photonics, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the field of communication, the utilization of Liquid Crystal On Silicon (LCoS) in
Wavelength Selective Switch (WSS) systems holds great promise. However, the lack of …

Integrated liquid crystal optical switch based on total internal reflection

A Zhang, KT Chan, MS Demokan, VWC Chan… - Applied physics …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
An optical switch structure which combines a planar lightwave circuit and liquid crystal is
proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The switching is realized by inducing total …

Microwave photonic devices based on liquid crystal on silicon technology

R Zheng, EHW Chan, X Wang, X Feng, BO Guan - Applied Sciences, 2019 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews the recent developments in microwave photonic devices based on liquid
crystal on silicon (LCOS) technology. The operation principle, functions and important …

LCOS-based flexible grid 1× 40 wavelength selective switch using planar lightwave circuit as spot size converter

M Iwama, M Takahashi, M Kimura, Y Uchida… - Optical Fiber …, 2015 - opg.optica.org
LCOS-based Flexible Grid 1x40 Wavelength Selective Switch Using Planar Lightwave Circuit
as Spot Size Converter Page 1 Tu3A.8.pdf OFC 2015 © OSA 2015 LCOS-based Flexible Grid …