Titanium nanoparticles doping of 5CB infiltrated microstructured optical fibers

Authors

  • Agata Siarkowska Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
  • Miłosz Chychłowski Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
  • Tomasz Ryszard Woliński Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology
  • Artur Dybko Faculty of Chemistry, Warsaw University of Technology

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https://doi.org/10.4302/photon.%20lett.%20pl.v8i1.624

Abstract

Optical properties 5CB liquid crystal (LC) cells and 5CB infiltrated microstructured optical fibers doped with 1 wt.% titanium nanoparticles (NPs) of the size ~100nm, have been studied. NPs were found to modify properties of both LC cells and LC-infiltrated fibers. Preliminary thermo-optic properties of photonic liquid crystal fiber with Ti-doped 5CB were researched. Additionally, preliminary electro-optic characteristic of the nanoparticles doped LC cell have been obtained.

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2016-03-31

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A. Siarkowska, M. Chychłowski, T. R. Woliński, and A. Dybko, “Titanium nanoparticles doping of 5CB infiltrated microstructured optical fibers”, Photonics Lett. Pol., vol. 8, no. 1, pp. pp. 29–31, Mar. 2016.

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