A directional coupler based on nematic liquid crystal filled photonic crystal fiber

• Main Authors: Wolinski, Tomasz R., Hu, Dora Juan Juan, Lim, Jun Long, Cui, Ying, Milenko, Karolina, Wang, Yixin, Shum, Perry Ping
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/99706; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/12071
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A highly temperature sensitive directional coupler is demonstrated experimentally by selectively filling nematic liquid crystal into a single void of the photonic crystal fiber. The temperature response of the device exhibits good linearity.