All-optical switching in a liquid crystalline waveguide

Andrea Fratalocchi; Gaetano Assanto

doi:10.1063/1.1861114

All-optical switching in a liquid crystalline waveguide

Andrea Fratalocchi^*, Gaetano Assanto

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Abstract

We demonstrate an all-optical switch based on mode mixing in a liquid crystalline waveguide defined by an external voltage. Efficient switching and rerouting can be achieved with good contrast at low powers in the whole transparency region.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	051109
Pages (from-to)	1-3
Number of pages	3
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	86
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1861114
State	Published - Jan 31 2005
Externally published	Yes

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