We propose to develop a voltage-controllable multi-guide directional coupler in a planar nematic liquid crystal cell. The ITO grating-like electrodes are fabricated by the etching technique, and the director of liquid crystals will be aligned to the direction of applied electric field. Owing to the uniaxial property of liquid crystals, the difference of refractive index between two neighboring channels is increased with the applied voltage. Therefore, the coupling efficiency among grating-like multi-guide is also increased with the applied voltage. By using the combination of microscope and CCD system, the dynamic coupling can be observed under the distribution of grating-like electric field. The propagation of light in each channel can be selected by the controllable voltage between the electrodes of the individual channel. The intensity distribution of coupling in the transverse direction can be obtained by analyzing the image captured from the microscope and CCD system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728106-155530 |
| Date | 28 July 2006 |
| Creators | Chen, Yu-ping |
| Contributors | I-Min Jiang, Ming-Shan Tsai, Chia-Rong Lee, Chie-Tong Kuo |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728106-155530 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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