@inproceedings{Markos_Vlachos_Kakarantzas_2011, title={Thermo-optic effect of an index guiding photonic crystal fiber with elastomer inclusions}, volume={7753}, ISBN={ISBN: 978-0-81948-246-4}, ISSN={0277-786X}, archiveLocation={Ινστιτούτο Θεωρητικής και Φυσικής Χημείας (ΙΘΦΧ) - Επιστημονικό έργο}, url={https://hdl.handle.net/10442/12663}, DOI={10.1117/12.886004}, abstractNote={In this work, we demonstrate numerically and experimentally the temperature dependence of a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) infiltrated with PDMS elastomer. We investigated the guiding properties of the PDMS-filled PCF and we present the variation of the effective index and effective modal areas of the fundamental guiding mode at 633 and 1550 nm, for a range of temperatures from 20 degrees C to 75 degrees C. Experimental measurements have shown an up to similar to 6% power recovery of the bend-induced loss for a 6-cm long PDMS-filled PCF at 4 cm bend diameter.}, booktitle={21st International Conference on Optical Fiber Sensors}, publisher={South P I East - International Society for Optical Engineering}, author={Markos, C. and Vlachos, K. and Kakarantzas, George}, editor={Bock, WJ and Albert, J and Bao, XEditors}, year={2011}, pages={[4]} }