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Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers

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Liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers form 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 present fiber devices for spectral filtering and polarization control/analysis.

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  1. COM•DTU, Department of Communications, Optics and Materials, Technical University of Denmark, Building 345v, Lyngby, 2800, Denmark

    Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold, Lara Scolari, Danny Noordegraaf, Jesper Lægsgaard, Johannes Weirich, Lei Wei & Anders Bjarklev

  2. DEIS, University of Bologna, Viale Risorgimento, 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Giovanni Tartarini & Paolo Bassi

  3. College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, 32816, USA

    Sebastian Gauza & Shin-Tson Wu

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Alkeskjold, T.T., Scolari, L., Noordegraaf, D. et al. Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers. Opt Quant Electron 39, 1009–1019 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-007-9139-8

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