Photonic liquid crystal fibers tuning by four electrode system produced with 3D printing technology

Slawomir Ertman; Karolina Bednarska; Aleksandra Czapla; Tomasz R. Woliński

doi:10.1117/12.2195189

28 September 2015 Photonic liquid crystal fibers tuning by four electrode system produced with 3D printing technology

Slawomir Ertman, Karolina Bednarska, Aleksandra Czapla, Tomasz R. Woliński

Proceedings Volume 9634, 24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors; 96345F (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195189
Event: International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors (OFS24), 2015, Curitiba, Brazil

Abstract

Photonic liquid crystal fiber has been intensively investigated in last few years. It has been proved that guiding properties of such fibers could be tuned with an electric field. In particular efficient tuning could be obtained if multi-electrode system allowing for dynamic change of not only intensity of the electric field, but also its direction. In this work we report a simple to build four electrode system, which is based on a precisely aligned four cylindrical microelectrodes. As an electrodes we use enameled copper wire with diameter adequate to the diameter of the fiber to be tuned. To ensure uniform and parallel alignment of the wires a special micro-profiles has been designed and then produced with filament 3D printer. The possibility of the dynamic change of the electric field direction in such scalable and cost effective electrode assembly has been experimentally confirmed.

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Slawomir Ertman, Karolina Bednarska, Aleksandra Czapla, and Tomasz R. Woliński "Photonic liquid crystal fibers tuning by four electrode system produced with 3D printing technology", Proc. SPIE 9634, 24th International Conference on Optical Fibre Sensors, 96345F (28 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2195189

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