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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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Alkeskjold, T.T., Scolari, L., Noordegraaf, D. et al. Integrating liquid crystal based optical devices in photonic crystal fibers. Opt Quant Electron 39, 1009–1019 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-007-9139-8
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