Abstract
We present the design of a microstructured dual-core optical fiber with integrated electrodes and filled with liquid crystals. The dual-core structure acts as a directional coupler whose properties depend on the liquid crystal alignment. We show that with four electrodes and two separate driving voltages below 30 V on the electrodes, the beam-splitting properties of the fiber can be controlled independently and continuously for the two polarization components, thus allowing for the realization of any arbitrary 2 × 2 transfer function, such as tunable polarizers, polarization-dependent attenuators, or polarization-independent beam splitting.
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