An efficiently tunable microring resonator using a liquid crystal-cladded polymer waveguide
- 20 September 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 97 (12) , 121109
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3492848
Abstract
An electrically tunable polymer microring resonator of large tunability and low applied voltage is demonstrated using active liquid crystal (LC) cladding. A large tuning range of 0.73 nm is achieved due to more homogenous LC molecular alignment and enhanced interaction of the light with the LC cladding in the simplified polymer waveguide structure. The operating voltage decreases to 10 V with a threshold of only 3 V by the utilization of interdigital electrodes.Keywords
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