1Univ. of Toronto (Canada) 2Univ. Laval (Canada) 3Institute for Physical Research, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia (Armenia) 4Payame Noor Univ. (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
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Point-by-point femtosecond laser writing of filaments was used to open high aspect ratio nano-holes transversely through the core of a single-mode telecommunication fiber (SMF-28). On infiltration with nematic liquid crystal, the small 200 nm diameter holes induced strong capillary alignment to facilitate strong birefringence responses when the filament was aligned into second-order (~1 micrometer period) Bragg arrays. Geometric arrangement of the nano-hole arrays provided the unique opportunity of designing customized all-fiber polarization filter inside of traditional single-mode fiber, with properties tunable by device length, azimuthal and chiral orientation of the filament array, and thermo-optic responses.
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Abdullah Rahnama, Tigran Dadalyan, Keivan Mahmoud Aghdami, Tigran Galstian, Peter R. Herman, "All-fiber, dynamically tunable, polarization filter based on liquid crystal filled nano-channels," Proc. SPIE PC12012, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XV, PC120120K (5 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2609196