In this work, the thermo-optical properties of a nematic liquid crystal are determined through reflectance measurements performed on a high finesse tunable filter fabricated using a polymer-based microcell technology. The final aim is to insert such material in the optical cavity of a 850 nm tunable VCSEL device, in which local self-heating due to CW pumping must be taken into account. These localized interferometric experiments are performed in the near-infra-red range and at temperatures up to 115 °C. A thermal model is derived from the acquired data. Finally, we demonstrate that the birefringence of QYPDLC-36 liquid crystal remains higher than 0.18 at 60 °C, feature well suited to real device operation.

Thermal characterization of a nematic liquid crystal suited for the fabrication of NIR spectrally-tunable vertical cavity surface emitting lasers

Debernardi, Pierluigi
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2022

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In this work, the thermo-optical properties of a nematic liquid crystal are determined through reflectance measurements performed on a high finesse tunable filter fabricated using a polymer-based microcell technology. The final aim is to insert such material in the optical cavity of a 850 nm tunable VCSEL device, in which local self-heating due to CW pumping must be taken into account. These localized interferometric experiments are performed in the near-infra-red range and at temperatures up to 115 °C. A thermal model is derived from the acquired data. Finally, we demonstrate that the birefringence of QYPDLC-36 liquid crystal remains higher than 0.18 at 60 °C, feature well suited to real device operation.
2022
Istituto di Elettronica e di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e delle Telecomunicazioni - IEIIT
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