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Tunable Polarization-Independent Fabry-Pérot Filters Using Blue-Phase Liquid Crystal

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.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0720111-174706
Date20 July 2011
CreatorsChen, Yan-han
ContributorsAndy Ying-Guey Fuh, Chin-Ping Yu, Chi-Yen Huang, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Shie-Chang Jeng
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0720111-174706
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