• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.245-250
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• 2002

We study numerically the temporal evolutions of two orthogonally polarized pulses with width less than 100fsec in all-optical phase-shift switches. We analyze the complicated interplay between a soliton pulse and a higher-order soliton pulse, including the self-and the cross-Raman scattering and the walk-off effect. We also investigate the influence of these interactions on switching performance, including pulse-shape, phase-shift distribution, and contrast ratio. In particular we show that an optical fiber with a typical birefringence (Δn : 2.4$\times$10$^{-5}$ ) can be used with good switching performance in such all-optical switches.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.146-151
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• 1999

We demonstrated a harmonic mode locking scheme that used regeneratie phase modulation to get a high and stable repetition rate in a figure-of-eight fiber soliton laser. From the detected beat spectra of the laser output, a sinusoidal clock freguency tone of 400 MHz, the 96th harmonics of the fundamental mode locking frequency, was extracted with a high Q filter and was used to drive the phase modulator, resulting in stable output of soliton pulse train synchronized with the modulation signal. Generated soliton pulses had FWHM pulsewidth of 930 fs and 3.1 nm linewidth, yielding pulsewidth-bandwidth product of 0.359 that was close to the transform limit. As the modulation frequency always followed the beat frequency of laser modes, stable harmonic mode locking was achieved without the adjustment of the cavity length, which has been commonly required in actively mode-locked lasers.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.142-147
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• 1995

Soliton pulse outputs are generated with figure '8' type erbium-doped fiber laser mode-locked by using a fiber loop mirror. The fiber loop mirror consists of an erbium-doped fiber amplifier at the one end of the loop, and 504 m-long dispersion-shifted fiber as a nonlinear medium. By pumping with a $1.48{\mu}m$ wavelength laser diode and adjusting the polarization controllers inside the loop, soliton pulses are generated with 1574 nm center wavelength and 1.2 nm linewidth. The soliton pulses are found randomly spaced within the fundamental period corresponding to cavity round trip time. The autocorrelation trace shows that the pulse width is 2.4 ps, which is in good agreement with the theoretical prediction. The pulsewidth- bandwidth product is found to be 0.348 which means that the pulses are nearly transform-limited.imited.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.8-18
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• 2002

We study complicated nonlinear interactions of two orthogonally polarized pulses with pulse-width of less than 100fsec in the all-optical phase-shift switches, which use soliton pulse-train and fiber-splicing for control pulse to obtain multi-collisional $\pi$-phase-shift and consider Raman response function. We investigate switching performance in various input parameters such as input pulse-width and birefringence of fiber, and find optimum initial conditions for good switching performance in such all-optical switches.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 1999

We demonstrate a new pulse characterization scheme relying on self-heterodyning that uses intracavity frequency shifter in a fiber soliton laser with frequency shifted feedback. By heterodyning the frequency-shifted pulse stream with the unshifted one, and by measuring the beat strength with varying the delay length between two pulse streams, we obtain the amplitude autocorrelation function from which we estimate the pulsewidth. The result is in good agreement with that obtained by the autocorrelation relying on the second harmonic generation.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.102-107
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• 2000

We propose a new scheme for generating a pedestal-free, femtosecond soliton pulse train by utilizing quasI-adiabatic high order soliton pulse evolution in dispersion decreasing fiber in conjunction with the intermediate pedestal suppression stage. Compression factor over 280 was achieved from lOGHz sinusoidal input, to 176 is soliton pulse train. train.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.1191-1202
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• 1994

We numerically investigate a stable propagation regime of soliton pulse trains in fibers with periodically copensated loss by lumped optical amplifiers. When amplification solition pulses is 1.2~1.5 and the minimum soliton separation normalized by the soliton width becomes about 6. In cases of L=50[km], the allowable range of A is 1.5~1.7 under =6. The maximum allowable variation of the loss compensation in each lumped amplifier becomes +-2% of the fiber loss when L=50[km], A=1.6, and =6. Generally, the allowable rages of the soliton amplitude A and amplifier gain are inversely proportional to the amplification period L.

• Optical Science and Technology
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.56-64
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• 1997

본 기술해설에서는 초고속 반도체 레이저의 특성을 알아보고 광통신에의 응용을 검토하였다. 먼저 반도체 레이저의 동작 원리를 설명하였고, 초고속 반도체 레이저의 소신호 및 대신호 변조특성에 대해서 기술하였다. 또한, 반도체 레이저를 이용하여 극초단 펄스를 생성하는 방법으로 이득/Q 스위칭법, 외부변조기와 집적화된 반도체 레이저를 이용하는 방법, 모드 록킹법에 대해서 검토하고 펄스 압축법에 관해서도 기술하였다. 초고속 반도체 레이저의 응용으로는 초고속 광통신, 솔리톤 광통신, 전광 시분할 다중/역다중에 관해서 기술하였다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.08a
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• pp.96-97
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• 1999

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.243-247
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• 1999

We report the generation of inherently stable, high-speed, nearly transform-limited, optical pulses by chirped pulse compression, in which sinusoidally driven phase modulator generates frequency chirped pulses that are subsequently compressed by a dispersive optical fiber. Experimental results show that $sech^2$ shape pulses with a pulse width of ~14 ps and a time bandwidth product of ~0.34 are successfully generated at 10 GHz repetition rate. In contrast to other methods, such as higher order soliton compression, this approach does not depend on the optical power and thus shows promise for application to low-power lasers.