Thermal optical nonlinearity in photonic crystal fibers filled with nematic liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles

Piotr Lesiak; Daniel Budaszewski; Karolina Bednarska; Michał Wójcik; Piotr Sobotka M.D.; Miłosz Chychłowski; Tomasz R. Woliński

doi:10.1117/12.2263978

16 May 2017 Thermal optical nonlinearity in photonic crystal fibers filled with nematic liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles

Piotr Lesiak, Daniel Budaszewski, Karolina Bednarska, Michał Wójcik, Piotr Sobotka M.D., Miłosz Chychłowski, Tomasz R. Woliński

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Proceedings Volume 10228, Nonlinear Optics and Applications X; 102280N (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263978
Event: SPIE Optics + Optoelectronics, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic

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In this work we studied a newly reported class of nonlinear effects observed in 5CB liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles (GNPs). The size of the GNP was determined by direct TEM imaging and by X-ray scattering of the diluted NP solution. GNPs was coated by thiols with the ratio of mesogenic to n-alkyl thiols varying from 1:2 to 1:1. The research involved comparing properties of both undoped and doped 5CB (nematic LC) by infiltrating LC cell and microholes of the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) separately. In our experiment the PCF fiber type LMA-10 made by NKT Photonics as host material has been used.

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Piotr Lesiak, Daniel Budaszewski, Karolina Bednarska, Michał Wójcik, Piotr Sobotka M.D., Miłosz Chychłowski, and Tomasz R. Woliński "Thermal optical nonlinearity in photonic crystal fibers filled with nematic liquid crystals doped with gold nanoparticles", Proc. SPIE 10228, Nonlinear Optics and Applications X, 102280N (16 May 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2263978

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