A chameleon-like core–shell organic/lanthanide flexible crystal waveguide for bandwidth and colour tunability
Abstract
. The BPP microcrystal waveguide, acting as the core, with BPP-Eu(iii) as the shell, provides a hybrid platform for broad and narrow band signal transmission. Depending on the input light and the absorption of the core or shell, the crystal acts as an active-active, passive-active, or passive-passive light-generating and/or transporting optical waveguide. Notably, the pseudo-plasticity of the core-shell hybrid waveguide enables modulation of the signal output direction without compromising its optical performances. The development of such smart optical waveguides has enormous potential for visible light communication and selective light-based microprecision sensing applications.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
Nonlinear Optical Materials Research
Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Chemical Science
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
- Volume
- 17
- Issue
- 29
- Pages
- 14178–14184
- Publication date
- 1 January 2026
- Language
- EN