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2. ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

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Optics Communications, Vol.284, 2011, pp.979-984

Abstract

A simple, compact electrooptic polarizer based on an ion-exchanged glass channel waveguide covered with a nematic liquid crystal (LC) is proposed. A full vectorial beam propagation method is employed to simulate this device for the first time. For the cases of zero and strong LC surface anchoring, the performance of the proposed polarizer under different applied voltages is analyzed numerically. Analysis indicates that surface anchoring of the liquid crystal is a key issue influencing the performance for the proposed optical polarizer device.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2010.10.034

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Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology, co-funded by the Marie-Curie Actions under FP7. The research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 60777038), the China-Ireland Science and Technology Collaboration Research Fund and the International cooperation project (No.20070708-3) of Jilin Provincial Science & Technology Department of China

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