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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Tunable Polarization-Independent Fabry-Pérot Filters Using Blue-Phase Liquid Crystal

Chen, Yan-han 20 July 2011 (has links)
Fabry-Pérot (FP) filters are widely used in telecommunications, lasers and spectroscopy to measure the wavelengths of light. The properties of a FP filter depend on the wavelength and incident angle of the light source, the thickness of the etalon and the refractive index of the material between the reflecting surfaces. In previous studies, the nematic liquid crystal (NLC) is employed as the medium of FP filters because of its simple structure and ease of modulation. The directors of the NLC could be rotated by applying an electric field. Due to the birefringence of the NLC, the optical characteristics of the device are polarization dependent. Blue phase liquid crystal (BPLC) is the phase between cholesteric phase and isotropic phase. It¡¦s an optically isotropic material can function as an active index-tuning material adopted in a FP filter, and the characteristics of the BPLC-based FP filter are polarization independent. By applying an electric field, the Kerr effect can be induced due to the local reorientation of liquid crystals in BP structure, leading to the effective index change of BPLC and the transmission peak shifts. Furthermore, the effective index of BPLC approaches the ordinary index of host LCs under increasing electric fields. In addition, the BPLC using polymer network construction can be stabilized in room temperature and improves the convenience of the device. According to the experimental results, the tunability of the BPLC-based FP filter is about 1nm/V. The measured response time of the BPLC-based FP filter is 1ms.

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