• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.208-215
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• 2007

A fiber-coupled laser-diode pumped ceramic Nd:YAG laser for compensating the thermal tensing effect was developed. The thermal tensing effect was compensated using a convex lens, which was 25 mm away from the laser rod, with a focal length of 30 mm and an effective clear aperture of 22 mm. Without a compensator, the laser output power decreased suddenly above a pump power of 6 W. Using a compensator, the laser output power increased linearly according to the pump power. The beam propagation factor $M^{2}$ was 2.4 under a pump power of 12 W.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.187-193
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• 2009

A lens which is one of cores for the high precision laser range finder is utilized to compute the distance by measuring the phase displacement. In order to measure the phase displacement, we transmit the optical signal from the laser diode to a target and receive the reflected laser light from the target. In this paper, we propose new lens design technique to solve the problem due to the inconsistent curvature of the lens, which consistently collects optical signals and performs the transmission and reception of the optical data, and test the implementation of the laser range finder based on the proposed technique. Since the proposed laser range finder has low error rate comparing to the conventional techniques, it may be apply to the high precision distance measurement.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.104-105
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• 2000

다이오드 레이저로 펌핑되는 Nd:YAG 매질에 형성된 열 복굴절은 레이저 출력과 빔질의 저하를 초래한다. 선편광된 레이저 출력을 얻기 위해서는 주로 공진기 내에 선형 편광자를 삽입하게 되는데, 레이저 매질에 형성된 열 복굴절에 의한 왜곡 편광된 레이저 빔이 편광자에 의해 반사되어 공진기 손실을 초래한다. 편광 왜곡에 의한 레이저 빔의 손실을 줄이거나 이중 초점을 제거하기 위해 주로 사용되어지는 광 소자는 Faraday 회전자, λ/4 판, 석영 회전자 등이 사용되어진다.$^{(1-5)}$ 90$^{\circ}$ 석영 회전자와 Faraday 회전자는 공진기 내에 두 개의 동일한 구조를 갖는 레이저를 이용할 경우 사용되고 λ/4 판 과 45$^{\circ}$ Faraday 회전자는 주로 단일 레이저 헤드의 복굴절 보상을 위해 사용되어진다. 45$^{\circ}$ Faraday 회전자는 이론적으로 완벽히 열복굴절에 의한 편광 왜곡을 보상한다. 그러나, 열복굴절을 완벽히 보상하기 위해서는 레이저 빔이 항상 레이저 매질의 같은 지점을 통과해야 한다. 실제적으로 레이저 매질에서는 열에 의한 열 렌즈 효과가 있기 때문에 레이저 빔이 항상 같은 지점을 통과하지 않게 된다. 이런 문제를 해결하기 위해 공진기 내에 열 렌즈 효과를 보상하기 위한 렌즈를 삽입하거나 레이저 헤드를 공진기 거울 가까이 설치하여야 한다. Faraday 회전자는 길이가 길기 때문에 레이저 헤드를 공진기 거울 가까이 설치하기는 어렵고 항상 열 렌즈 효과를 보상해주는 광학 소자가 있어야 하는 단점이 있다. 반면 λ/4 판은 완벽한 편광 왜곡을 보상해주지 않아 레이저 손실을 초래하지만 두께가 얇아 레이저 헤드와 공진기 거울을 근접해서 설치할 수 있어서 몇몇 연구자에 의해 연구되어 졌다.$^{(3)}$ 본 연구에서는 λ/4 판을 이용하고 편광기에서 반사된 빔을 공진기에 되반사 시키는 구조를 사용하여 선 편광된 레이저의 출력과 빔의 질을 개선 시켰다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.220-221
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• 2000

본 연구에서 목표로 하는 집속광학계는 레이저 다이오드의 emitting area가 50$mu extrm{m}$$\times$1.0$\mu\textrm{m}$ 이고 pumping 매질인 crystal의 TE $M_{00}$ mode 발생을 위한 최소 입사빔의 단면도가 단축과 장축의 직경이 각각 206$\mu\textrm{m}$, 204$\mu\textrm{m}$인 타원이어야 하기 때문에 수직 방향으로는 200배 수평 방향으로는 4배의 확대를 할 수 있는 광학계 이어야 한다. 일반적으로 레이저 다이오드용 집속광학계는 레이저다이오드의 수직 수평 emitting area가 다르기 때문에 실린더형, 원통형 또는 toroidal형의 렌즈를 조합하여 구성한다. 그러나 우리의 경우는 emitting area의 수직 수평비 즉 집속광학계의 수직 수평의 굴절능( power )의 비가 50:1 이어야 하기 때문에 그림1과 같은 일반적인 실린더형, 원통형 또는 toroidal형의 렌즈의 조합으로 집속광학계를 구성하기에는, 렌즈 power비를 50:1로 하기 위해 필요로 하는 공간이( 첫번 렌즈와 마지막 렌즈까지의 거리 ) 커지는 점, 필요로 하는 렌즈의 매수가 많아지는 점, 집속 beam의 형상 즉 단면의 이심률이 커져서 pumping에 비효율적이라는 점 등에서, 부적절하다. (중략)략)

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.15-20
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• 2009

In a detection system based on laser light scattering, focusing an excitation laser beam into a focal point of a channel in a microfluidic chip is important for obtaining the highest excitation intensity, and consequently for obtaining a laser light scattering signal using a photodetector with a high efficiency. In this paper, we present a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic chip consisting of an integrated PDMS microlens for cell detection based on laser light scattering. We fabricated PDMS microlens for optical detection system by simply putting down on PDMS chips. The PDMS microlens was fabricated by photoresist reflow and replica molding. This fabrication technique is simple and has an excellent property in terms of the microlens and a high-dimensional accuracy. The PDMS microlens integrated on the PDMS microfluidic chip has been verified to improve the laser intensity, and accordingly, the signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity of laser light scattering detection for red blood cells(RBCs)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.575-582
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• 2004

We analyse the beam characteristics of the thermal-birefringence compensated symmetric resonator which consists of two laser rods with rod-end curvatures. The numerical results show that the stability and the beam quality can be improved in high power operation region when the rod-ends are made in the form of a negative lens. The thermal birefringence of the symmetric two-rods resonator is shown to be well compensated when the two rods closely contact each other.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.213-218
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• 2017

In this study, a reverse design of the F-theta lens was proposed for a 2D scanner in remote welding applications. The curvature and distance of the lens were set as variables, and the focal length of the lens was set as the marginal ray height. The ZEMAX commercial software was used to perform a simulation with unlimited iterations for the optimization process. The target value was optimized using the internal Merit function with the weight factors of focal length and spot diameter. The number of lenses was four, and the focal length obtained from the results was 135mm that is slightly less than that of the commercial lens, which is set with a focal length of 185 mm. The calculated spot diameters are $1.3{\mu}m$, $6.2{\mu}m$, and $16.1{\mu}m$ for $0^{\circ}$, $12.5^{\circ}$ and $23^{\circ}$ of incident laser beam, respectively. It is expected that an optimized lens design is possible by performing the reverse design of a lens by the ray tracing method.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.191-198
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• 1998

A method is described to produce off-axis hologram lenses without astigmatism for semiconductor lasers. We fabricated a holographic collimating lens by using dichromated gelatin film with high diffraction efficiency and without astigmatism which makes a collimated off-axis beam of semiconductor laser. We have designed the holographic collimating lens by applying the classical ray-tracing method to holographic diffraction. The elimination of astigmatism is obtained by choosing appropriate angles of recording and reconstruction beams. The hologram is recorded by use of Ar^{+}$ laser (488nm wavelength) and reconstructed by semiconductor laser(670nm wavelength). The physical parameters of recording and reconstruction angles, wavelength, and astigmatism are analytically calculated and experimentally confirmed.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.496-502
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• 2001

We generated a nondiffracting beam and investigated its intensity profile on propagation. We first obtained an annular output beam from Nd:YAG laser with a negative branch unstable ring resonator and, using a 1m focal length lens, we generated a Bessel- Gauss beam. The inner radius of the annular output beam was 2.57 mm and the ring width was 0.145 mm. The intensity profile of the nondiffracting beam did not show any appreciable diffraction up to 33 m distance from the focal lens. This result was compared with the theory.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.489-495
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• 2001

We developed a design code for a diode side-pumped Nd:YAG laser with a diffusive reflector to investigate the optimum design conditions resulting in homogeneous absorption distribution and efficient laser output power. By including the thermal tensing effect in the calculation of the laser output power, the calculated output powers were in fairly good agreement with the experimental results within the stable resonator condition. The calculation method can be used effectively for a diode side-pumped Nd:YAG laser in choosing the optimum design parameters and in predicting the laser output power.