Line defects and temperature effects in liquid crystal tunable planar Bragg gratings
Liquid crystal tunable planar Bragg Gratings produced by Direct UV Writing are capable of wavelength tuning of over 100GHz. However, such devices exhibit non-linear tuning curves with threshold points and hysteresis. We show that these effects are due to the formation of disclination structures in t...
Main Authors: | Snow, B.D (Author), Adikan, F.R.M (Author), Gates, J.C (Author), Gawith, C.B.E (Author), Dyadyusha, A. (Author), Kaczmarek, M. (Author), Smith, P.G.R (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2007-12-10.
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