Composite Liquid Crystalline Mixtures for Guided Wave Electro–Optic Applications
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Dany Dumont; Armen Zohrabyan; Tigran Galstian; Rouslan Birabassov; Amir Tork
- Source
- Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals. 488:74-87
- Subject
- Optical fiber
Guided wave testing
Materials science
business.industry
Elastic energy
Physics::Optics
Electro-optic modulator
General Chemistry
Condensed Matter Physics
law.invention
Condensed Matter::Soft Condensed Matter
Optics
law
Liquid crystal
Phase (matter)
Optoelectronics
General Materials Science
Fiber
business
Refractive index
- Language
- ISSN
- 1563-5287
1542-1406
A low refractive index multifunctional composite liquid crystalline mixture is proposed to address the issues of in-guide tuning of optical properties. As the standard optical telecommunication line is made of fused silica, signal phase and amplitude modulation using liquid crystal requires that its refractive indices match the refractive index of silica, which is low compared to the majority of commercially available mixtures. In the present work, low molecular mass liquid crystals are mixed with fluorinated additives to adjust refractive index below a critical limit (n