• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.654-659
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• 2011

We propose a novel method to reduce laser chirp and improve modulation performance in semiconductor laser by using dual-electrode structure. Dual-electrode structure is realized by segmenting a electrode on top of gain medium, as was the case of edge emitting laser diode, into electrically isolated two electrodes. By using the proposed structure, we have experimentally achieved a reduction of laser spectral width of 0.23 nm and an improvement of 2.5-dB receiver sensitivity at an 80-km fiber transmission for 10-Gbps NRZ (non-return-to zero) data stream.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.16-24
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• 1998

In a high speed long haul fiber optic communication system using modulation, fiber chromatic dispersion and laser chirping can cause serious performance degradations. In this paper, the combined effect of laser chirping and chromatic dispersion on the per- formance of 2.5[Gbps] rate lightwave systems operating at a wavelength of 1550[nm] was investigated. Also we used an optical equalizer to compensate the laser chirping and fiber dispersion, and knew that the receiver sensitivity was improved by about 2 ~ 4[dB].

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.35D no.6
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• pp.92-98
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• 1998

The transform limited optical short pulses are generated by compression of pulses from a gain switched distributed feedback laser at 5 GHz repetition rate. The gain-switched pulses have the minimum pulse width of 27 psec with the spectral width of 1.1 nm. Thus the output pulses have a large amount of linear chirp and nonlinear chirp. We suppress the nonlinear chirp by passing the pulses through the optical band pass filter with 3 dB band width of 0.55 nm which is narrower than spectral width of the input pulses and generate 7.1 psec pulses by compressing the output with the dispersion compensating fiber. The pulses have time-bandwidth product of 0.49 which is close to the transform limited gaussian pulse. These pulses can be utilized as optical sources in 40 Gbit/s time division multiplexed optical transmission system.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.182-183
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• 2001

가입자 지역의 데이터 통신 용량의 증가로 기존 국간에서 병목현상을 피하기 위해 도입된 파장분할다중화(WDM) 기술이 도심(Metro) 지역에도 적용되고 있다. 100km 미만의 단거리 지역은 경제성을 고려할 때 장거리 전송에 사용되는 외부변조 방식보다는 저가로 구현이 가능한 직접변조 방식의 송신기가 주로 사용되고 있다. 반도체 레이저를 이용한 직접변조 방식을 채택한 시스템에 있어 소광비와 처핑은 시스템의 전송성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소이다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 1999

A 10 GHz harmonically mode-locked semiconductor-fiber ring laser was implemented using a semiconductor optical amplifier at $1.5\mu\textrm{m}$ The laser pulse has 13~18 ps pulse duration, 0.4~0.6 nm spectral width and was positively chirped. The output pulse with an average power of 4 dBm was compressed to 6.8 ps using 2 km long standard single mode optical fiber.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.143-148
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• 2006

A new method of measuring the Brillouin gain spectrum of optical fiber is proposed and demonstrated. Unlike existing methods, both the pump light and the counter-propagating probe light are generated from a single laser diode whose optical frequency is directly modulated by injection current modulation. The frequency difference between the pump and the probe is scanned continuously through optical frequency chirp occurring when the injection current is modulated with a square wave. The measured Brillouin gain spectrum of telecom single-mode fiber agrees well with that shown in other literature.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.365-372
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• 1995

A signal processing technique for interferometric fiber-optic sensors is proposed. It does not require a any special optic components such as phase modulator, $3times3$ couplers,to obtain the full sensitivity of the interferometer. Instead, it requires a reference interferometer for phase referencing and a reference mirror for intensity referencing, but intensity referencing can be done without using the r reference mirror. The new technique utilizes the frequency chirping of the laser diode to process t the sensor signal with both wide dynamic range and high sensitivity of the interferometer. It was a applied to an internal-mirrored FP interferometric temperature sensor to obtain the system noise of $4\times10^{-3\circ}C$ from I cm FP Interferometor sensor device.