Birefringence Measurements of Photonic Liquid Crystal Fibre by Use of the Depolarization Method

Autor: Andrzej W. Domanski, Rafal Cieslak, Daniel Budaszewski
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 502:47-55
ISSN: 1563-5287
1542-1406
DOI: 10.1080/15421400902813691
Popis: In the paper we present the results of investigating the effective birefringence of prototype photonic crystal fibre, partially infiltrated with “1550” liquid crystal mixture. We use the modified Mueller matrix method with an additional depolarization matrix to calculate degree of polarization changes of the light propagating in the liquid-crystal infiltrated microstructured optical fibres. We conducted the research for red and infrared semiconductor laser diodes. The research may lead to construction of temperature controlled depolarizer.
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