• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.349-357
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• 2007

The most sensitive part of the installed optical fiber fable is the optical loss variation of the splicing part according to the environmental changes. This paper presents the details of the experimental results of the external environmental changes on optical loss, such as bending, temperature variation, temperature variation after water osmosis and vibration. Through the bending test of optical fiber, rapid increase of optical loss was measured within the radius of 30mm. The result of optical loss variation within the temperature range of $-30^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$ is less than 0.02dB. It was confirmed that the maximum optical loss increased up to 0.2dB in case of water osmosis within the temperature range of $-40^{\circ}C{\sim}80^{\circ}C$. There is small optical loss variation of 0.01dB under the 1mm vibration test. The experimental results of this paper can be used as the reference data for the design of the optical fiber cable splicing enclosure to protect the optical loss variation due to environmental changes.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.867-871
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed and demonstrated a low loss $1{\times}4$ type plastic optical fiber(POF) coupler incorporating a polymer tapering waveguide region. To avoid leakage loss at the interfaces between the POF and the polymer waveguide, we employed two POF transition regions, in which the cross section of the POF is adiabatically converted from a circular to a rectangular shape without change of its cross-section area. The device was fabricated based on a injection mold made of a silicon rubber. The fabricated POF coupler showed 1.33 dB of excess loss and 2.2 dB of flatness.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.731-736
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• 2017

In this paper, we report the fabrication of concave surface fiber tips for optical resonators. It was confirmed that the radius of curvature on fiber end can be controlled by introducing the hydrofluoric acid solution and the wavelength of $1.55{\mu}m$ laser which is absorbed well in the etchant to induce the photothermal effect. Using the microscope images, we observed the proposed concave fiber tip fabrication method is effective to make the controllable concave tips. We also observed changes in the size of the beam emitted from the tips with the various radius of curvature using the beam profiler. The authors believe that the proposed method will be applied to resonators for optical communications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.732-735
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• 2013

In this study, we are measured gamma-ray induced loss on single-mode (SM) fibers from a total of four different manufactures. The $Co^{60}$ gamma-ray source was used in this test. The gamma-ray is irradiated for 2 hours at the dose rate of 0.6 kGy/hr, 1.2 kGy/hr, 2.4 kGy/hr. In test results, We clearly confirm the dose rate effect in different fiber types and evaluate the radiation sensitivity by the change of the radiation-induced loss.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.4C
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• pp.430-436
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose and describe our implementation of an automatic control system for the center wavelength of a fiber Bragg grating. The proposed system consists of a Fabry-Perot filter and cantilever structure controlled by a step motor interfacing computer. We consider the change of the center wavelength and the reflective spectrum shape for a given FBG according to the translation distance of the push stick and the cantilever thickness variation. The proposed system can control the center wavelength of a FBG with a resolution of 0.01 nm by applying compression or extension to the FBG. The proposed system has characteristics that keep the desired wavelength of the FBG with a variation of environmental conditions.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.34-35
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• 2003

광통신 분야에서 광신호의 장거리 전송에 따른 세기 감소를 보강하기 위해 쓰이는 광섬유증폭기는 현재 1.3 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 대역, 1.45 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 대역 및 1.5 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 대역에서 작동하는 희토류 이온 첨가 광섬유 광증폭기가 개발되어 쓰이고 있다. 한편 ETRI에서는 기존 광통신에 쓰이는 광 증폭기에 추가해 더 넓은 파장대를 광통신에 쓸 수 있도록 하는 새로운 파장대역의 광 증폭기 구현을 가능케하고 나아가 광통신 용량을 기존보다 휠씬 더 큰 10 Tbps급 이상으로 늘이기 위해 1.6 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 파장대인 U 밴드대 광증폭기용 광섬유인 Pr 첨가 셀레나이드 유리 조성의 신소재를 개발하였는데, 본 연구에서는 Ge-Sb-Ga-Se 계열의 Pr 첨가 셀레나이드 유리의 굴절률을 분광타원 법 (spectroscopic ellipsometry)을 사용하여 결정하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.161-166
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• 2016

We studied the effect of $Co^{60}$ gamma-radiation on the FBGs by a variation of grating the fabrication parameters. The FBGs were fabricated in a different UV KrF laser intensity using the same boron co-doped photo-sensitive fiber and exposed to gamma-radiation up to a dose of 33.8 kGy. According to the experimental data and analysis results, We confirmed that the laser intensity for grating inscription has a highly effect on the radiation sensitivity of the FBGs and the radiation-induced Bragg wavelength shift by the change of laser process condition showed a difference more than about 30 %.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.277-282
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• 2016

Effect of spectral drift in coherent fiber laser was investigated by injecting optical feedback to Fabry-Perot resonance loop. Er+3 doped fiber laser having unilateral optical feedback loop in Fabry-Perot configuration using two FBGs was fabricated. The optical feedback was found to be effective in linewidth reduction of fiber laser compared to the case without any optical feedback. The linewidth of three fiber lasers using above configuration were measured to be within 3kHz which is resolution-limited performance of self-heterodyne linewidth measurement set-up. The frequency drift measurement using Mach-Zehnder measurement set-up having 200m optical delay-line in one arm showed that the frequency drift rate of optical feedback fiber laser was measured as 300kHz/sec which was better than the case without optical feedback.

• The Optical Journal
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• s.96
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• pp.55-59
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• 2005

광섬유격자 제조기술과 응용기술의 개발은 다양한 응용분야와 관련하여 광산업분야에 필수적인 요소이다. 또한 평판형 광도파로격자소자는 DWDM등 광전송 기술산업에 핵심적이고 원천적인 연구로서, WDM(Wavelength Division Multiplexing: 파중분할다중방식), Add/Drop Multiplexer 등 분야에 대한 응용기술연구가 필요하다. 광섬유 브래그격자(FBG: Fiber Bragg Grating)는 광통신 시스템의 핵심부품 중 하나이다. 제작공정의 특성상 다른 부품에 비하여 삽입손실(Insertion Loss)이 매우 작고, Fiber Laser, Laser wavelength stabilization, 광섬유 증폭기의 pump reflector, add/drop filter, optical circulator, 광증폭기의 이득평탄화 등 매우 다양한 응용분야를 가지고 있으며, 향후 수요시장이 대폭 증가할 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.188-189
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• 2001

광통신 분야에서 파장분할 방식(WDM)이 널리 이용됨에 따라, 파장 가감기는 광통신의 핵심 소자로 주목받고 있다. 특히, 광섬유 브래그 격자를 이용한 전광섬유(All-fiber) 소자는 좁은 선택파장 특성을 만족시키며 삽입손실이 작다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 기울어진 광섬유 브래그 격자(Tilted FBG)와 모드분할 방향성 결합기(Mode Selective Coupler, MSC)의 광섬유 공간모드(spatial mode)결합을 이용한 전광섬유 파장 가감기에 대하여 설명하고 있으며, 보다 좋은 성능의 소자제작을 위해 몇 가지 새로운 제작방법을 제안하고 구현하였다. (중략)