Integrated liquid crystal photonic bandgap fiber devices

Abstract

Liquid crystal photonic bandgap (LCPBG) fibers provide a versatile and robust platform for designing optical fiber devices, which are highly tunable and exhibit novel optical properties for manipulation of guided light. We review the research progress on design, fabrication and development of integrated LCPBG fiber devices.

Keywords

photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) / fiber devices / liquid crystal (LC) devices

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to T. T. Alkeskjold, J. Weirich, L. Scolari, W. Xue, Y. Chen, C. B. Olausson, D. Noordegraaf, L. Eskildsen, J. Laegsgaard and A. Bjarklev for fruitful collaboration and discussion. This work was supported in part by the Singapore Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2 (MOE2015-T2-1-066), MINDEF-NTU-JPP/15/01/02, and Nanyang Technological University (Startup grant: Lei Wei).

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