Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers

@article{Alkeskjold2007IntegratingLC,
  title={Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers},
  author={Thomas Tanggaard Alkeskjold and Lara Scolari and Danny Noordegraaf and Jesper L{\ae}gsgaard and Johannes Weirich and Lei Wei and Giovanni Tartarini and Paolo Bassi and Sebastian Gauza and Shin‐Tson Wu and Anders Overgaard Bjarklev},
  journal={Optical and Quantum Electronics},
  year={2007},
  volume={39},
  pages={1009-1019}
}
Liquid crystal photonic bandgap fibers form a versatile and robust platform for designing optical fiber devices, which are highly tunable and exhibit novel optical properties for manipulation of guided light. We present fiber devices for spectral filtering and polarization control/analysis. 
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