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Supplementary Material for
Fabrication and characterization of fibers with built-in liquid crystal channels
and electrodes for transverse incident-light modulation
Alexander Stolyarov1,2,3, Lei Wei1,2, Fabien Sorin1,2,4, Guillaume Lestoquoy1,2,5,
John D. Joannopoulos1,2,6, and Yoel Fink1,2,7,a)
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Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77
Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, 29 Oxford Street,
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
4Present
address: Laboratoire surface du verre et interfaces, Unité Mixte
CNRS/Saint-Gobain UMR 125, 39 quai Lucien Lefranc, 93303 Aubervilliers, France
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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts
Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
a) Electronic mail: [email protected]
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Supplemental Fig. 1. An example data set of transmission intensity vs. applied
voltage showing a saturation in transmission intensity. The maximum applied
voltage is 140 V.
V(z, f ) / V0
Supplemental Fig. 2. Surface plot of the calculated electric potential as a function of
frequency and position along the length of a 40-cm long fiber contacted at the 0-cm
side. The geometry used for this calculation is the same as in Fig. 3(a) of the
manuscript; the resistivity of the CPE electrodes (1.1 Ωm) is replaced by the
resistivity Bi58Sn42 ((39*10-8 Ωm)). At a driving frequency of 1 kHz or lower, the
electric potential is the same along the entire fiber length.