TY - GEN
T1 - A novel Mach-Zehnder interferometer based on hybrid liquid crystal-photonic crystal fiber
AU - Luo, Xianping
AU - Yu, Kai
AU - Wang, Jialu
AU - Du, Muqing
AU - Zhang, Lingli
AU - Liu, Yongjun
AU - Sun, Weiming
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© OSA 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We propose a novel all fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with liquid crystal (LC)-filled. The interference between the core mode and the cladding modes of a PCF is utilized. In order to excite the cladding modes, a region is formed by using fiber fusion splicer. We mainly studied the MZIs with different LCfilled structure. The measured results demonstrate that quite clear interference spectra can be obtained. Through analysis spatial frequency spectrum and temperature spectrum of MZIs with different LC-filled structure, we can obtain the MZI with two LC-filled holes has more interference peaks. The temperature sensitivities can be enlarged to -1.56666 nm/°. The interferometer shows a good temperature tunability and sensitivity, which can be a good candidate for a highly tunable optical filtering and temperature sensing applications.
AB - We propose a novel all fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based on photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with liquid crystal (LC)-filled. The interference between the core mode and the cladding modes of a PCF is utilized. In order to excite the cladding modes, a region is formed by using fiber fusion splicer. We mainly studied the MZIs with different LCfilled structure. The measured results demonstrate that quite clear interference spectra can be obtained. Through analysis spatial frequency spectrum and temperature spectrum of MZIs with different LC-filled structure, we can obtain the MZI with two LC-filled holes has more interference peaks. The temperature sensitivities can be enlarged to -1.56666 nm/°. The interferometer shows a good temperature tunability and sensitivity, which can be a good candidate for a highly tunable optical filtering and temperature sensing applications.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85165759974
U2 - 10.1364/APOS.2016.Th4A.51
DO - 10.1364/APOS.2016.Th4A.51
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85165759974
SN - 9780960038053
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, APOS 2016
PB - Optica Publishing Group (formerly OSA)
T2 - Asia-Pacific Optical Sensors Conference, APOS 2016
Y2 - 11 October 2016 through 14 October 2016
ER -