• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.45 no.11
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• pp.29-34
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• 2008

The propagation characteristics of novel grating-assisted multimode interference (GA-MMI) coupler are explicitly and theoretically investigated by using longitudinal modal transmission-line theory (L-MTLT). The coupling efficiency of GA-MMI coupler is evaluated along the variation of grating thickness and duty cycle, and the spectrum is analyzed numerically. The numerical results reveal that the coupling length and the efficiency of $2{\times}2$ GA-MMI coupler along the variation of grating structure have low tolerance and the bandwidth varies dramatically along the output states.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.1-5
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• 1985

In this paper, temperature-induced optical phase shifts in single-mode fibers are studied both analytically and experimentally. Temperature sensor using single-mode fiber interferometer is designed and the temperature sensitivity of the sensor system is investigated. This fiber-optic temperature sensor which employs the Mach-Zehnder arrangement is a high sensitivity sensor of phase detection type. In this type, temperature changes are ob-served as a motion of an optical interference fringe pattern. In the measurements using interferometer, one of the important problems is to detect simultaneously the number and direction of fringe displacement resulting from physical perturbations (temperature, pressure, etc.). To realize this, the array detector using multi-mode fiber is designed. By this array detector the number and direction of fringe displacement is Ineasured very conveniently.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.248-253
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• 2005

We designed and fabricated a compact multi-mode interference (MMI) wavelength demultiplexer using the concept of 'Improved Quasi-State' modes. The output power and extinction ratio were improved by utilizing modal phase error which is specially occurred in low-index contrast. For a designed demultiplexer, the mode propagation analysis with effective index approximation shows significant improvement of extinction ratio to -25 dB for both $1.31{\mu}m\;and\;1.51{\mu}m$ wavelength region and the split-length was reduced about 1/5 of other MMI devices. The fabricated device shows successful characteristics for both 1.31 and $1.55{\mu}m$ wavelengths. These results demonstrate the potential of low-index materials system and the embossing process for photonic integrated circuits.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2008

In this paper, a novel architecture for device miniaturization of multimode interference-based (MMI) couplers is proposed. The coupling length of $N{\times}N$ MMI couplers scales as the square of the MMI region width so that the use of these structures with large-N ports can require large chip size. To solve the design problem, the butterfly grating-assisted MMI couplers, that have smaller device dimensions than conventional MMI couplers, are discussed and evaluated. Numerical simulations and novel design rules for such structures derived through theoretical analysis are presented.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.47-52
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• 2013

A novel architecture to reduce dramatically the coupling length of multimode interference-based couplers (MMICs) is proposed by replacing conventionally designed MMICs by cascaded two-section plasmonic stepped MMICs (PS-MMIC). For the 60% cross power splitting ratio in a stepped-width MMIC, the coupling length of device results in around 42% length reduction. Furthermore, the power splitting ratio and coupling length of plasmonic MMIC just vary around 1~2% along the variation of refractive index. On the contrast, those factors for the variation of MMIC's width strongly vary around 30~40%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.82-82
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• 2001

스페클 패턴은 다중모드 광섬유 내를 전파하는 모드 사이의 간섭현상 때문에 발생하는 검은 무늬로서, 외부 섭동 (perturbation)의 크기에 따라 패턴이 바뀌게 된다. 이 현상을 이용하여 본 연구에서는 스페클 센서를 제작하여 실험을 통해 시설물을 원거리, 실시간 원격 감시가 가능하고 매우 민감한 침입자 센서로 응용 가능함을 확인하였다. 본 연구에서는 감도를 높이고 구조를 간단하게 하기 위해, 공간필터를 사용하는 대신 광검출기 홀더를 길이 가변이 가능하도록 지그를 제작하여 사용하였으며, 정류기와 FVC를 사용하여 외부 섭동의 지속시간과 크기를 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.164-165
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• 2003

현재의 초고속 인터넷 서비스를 위한 광 인터넷의 기술 확산과 이들의 광통신 가입자망과의 연동으로 가입자 및 Hub 에서의 대규모 광 모듈 수요가 예상되고 있다. 이러한 광 모듈에서 필수적인 소자중의 하나가 파장 여과기이며, 그 수요 충족을 위해서는 소형화와 저가격화가 필수적이다. 이를 만족하기위해 실리카 기반의 다중모드간섭 소자를 이용한 파장 여과기가 개발중에 있다. 하지만, 일반적으로 광소자는 편광에 대한 문제점을 가지고 있기 때문에 이를 고려하지 않으면 출력 도파로에서 효율적인 출력파워를 얻어낼 수 없다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.305-306
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• 2009

This paper shows through detailed simulations that the length of conventionally designed multimode-interference couplers can be shorted significantly by stepped-width and stepped-index design. For the cross-coupling device, this stepped-design results in 9% or more length reduction.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39A no.4
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• pp.180-187
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• 2014

In this paper, a extension of a fixed-complexity sphere decoder (FSD) to perform interference signal detection and cancelling is proposed for downlink multiuser multiple input-multiple output (MIMO) communication system. It is based on the application of channel matrix expansion on generalized sphere decoder (GSD), and modification of the channel matrix ordering scheme to a FSD algorithm for interference detection. A Monte Carlo simulation shows that the proposed algorithm improves the receiver performance by 3 dB as compared to maximum likelihood detection without interference cancelling at 10% packet error rate in configuration of 702 Mbit/s datarate for four users respectively on IEEE802.11ac.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.469-474
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• 2006

A $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch with small excess loss using multimode interference(MMI) couplers is designed, fabricated, and measured. This paper introduces the proposed $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch, and discusses the measurement results. The $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch is farmed as 4-stage which consists of 15 unit devices. The unit devices are the $2{\times}2$ thermo-optic switches with Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI) structure. The characteristics of the $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch depends strongly on each unit device. The unit deviceconsists of two 3-dB general interference MMI couplers and two single mode waveguide arms as a phase shifter. First of all, the 3-dB optical splitter and $2{\times}2$ MZI thermo-optic switch have been tested to confirm the characteristics of the unit devices of the $1{\times}16$ MZI thermo-optic switch. Using the measurement results of the unit devices, the $1{\times}16$ MZI thermo-optic switch can be produced with better characteristics. The resultant structure of the MMI coupler with the optical light source of wavelength of 1550nm for the $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch is that the width and the optimized length are $25{\mu}m\;and\;1580{\mu}m$, respectively. The smallest excess loss fur the unit device is -0.5dB and the average excess loss is -0.7dB.