Microstructured fibers with liquid crystals: tuning of optical transmission and dispersion / vorgelegt von Markus Wahle. Paderborn, 2017
Inhalt
- Summary
- Zusammenfassung
- Introduction
- History of optical fibers
- History of liquid crystals
- Photonic crystal fibers, microstructured optical fibers & liquid crystals
- Theoretical background
- Liquid crystals
- Basic properties of nematic liquid crystals
- Order parameter
- Anisotropic properties
- Losses due to light scattering
- The Frank-Oseen free energy
- Euler Lagrange equations
- Dielectric and optical properties of liquid crystals
- Liquid crystal displays: Basic principle
- Alignment techniques for liquid crystals
- Liquid crystals in circular capillaries
- Basic fiber optics
- Experimental results
- Microstructured optical fibers
- Liquid crystal filled microstructured optical fibers
- Experimental details
- Types of microstructured optical fibers
- Liquid crystals
- Inclusion surface treatment & filling procedure
- Measurement & Characterization
- Results & Discussion
- Liquid crystal photonic crystal fibers
- Properties of photonic crystal fibers & photonic band gap fibers
- Polarizing capabilities of liquid crystal photonic crystal fibers
- Effective indices, group velocity & dispersion in liquid crystal photonic crystal fibers
- Four wave mixing in PBGFs & hybrid guiding fibers
- Experiments
- Results
- Conclusion & Outlook
- Acknowledgements
- Appendix
- Refractive indices of silica and Germanium doped silica
- Refractive index measurements
- Liquid crystal mixtures
- Bibliography