Crystal Optical Slab Waveguide, Fiber, and Nanostructured Photonic Crystals

Liquid Crystal Optical Slab Waveguide, Fiber, and Nanostructured Photonic Crystals 

Besides the bulk thin film structures discussed in the preceding section, liquid crystals could also be fabricated into optical waveguides or nanostructured photonic 

Liquid crystal fibers are usually made by filling hollow fibers (microcapillaries) made of material of lower indices of refraction. The microcapillaries are usually 

Fabrications of such fibers with isotropic phase hquid crystals are much eas-iej. 27.29 Because of the fluid property and much lower scatteriug loss, liquid ciystal fibers of much longer dimension have been fabricated and shown to exhibit interesting nonlinear optical properties high quality image transmitting fiber arrays - have also been fabricated for passive pulsed laser limiting applications. Other optical devices based on liquid ciystal filled photonic ciystal (holey) fibers have also been reported.  

Recently, photonic crystals in one-, two-, and three-dimensional forms have received intense research interest owing to the rich variety of possibilities in terms of 

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