• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.05b
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• pp.5-9
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• 2003

장주기 격자 필터를 이용한 EDFA용 이득평탄화 필터 설계에는 대역폭에 따라 한 개에서 세 개까지의 평탄화가 가능하다 이러한 필터 설계는 EDFA의 고유의 중심 파장, 크기, 대역폭에 대한 각 장주기 광섬유 격자의 중심 파장, 크기, 대역폭을 설정하여 이득평탄화를 최적화시킨다. 이득평탄화 필터의 설계를 위한 방법으로써 수동 설계통한 이득평탄화를 했으나, 신속하고 편리함을 위해 반자동 설계, 자동 설계 프로그램을 구현하였다. 이를 통한 이득평탄화 정도는, 수동이 0.38dB, 반자동 0.57dB, 자동 0.62dB 정도로 정밀한 이득평탄화를 얻을 수 있는 설계가 가능하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• v.2
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• pp.65-67
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• 2006

광통신이 발달하면서 보다 빠른 정보전송을 할 수 있지만 다른 전송매체와 마찬가지로 장거리 전송 시 손실이 발생하고 이러한 문제의 해결책으로 광 증폭기의 필요성이 대두 되었다. 기존의 광신호 증폭기에서는 광 신호를 전기신호 변환한 후 증폭하고 다시 증폭된 전기신호를 광신호로 변환하는 과정과 복잡한 구조는 전송시스템의 병목 문제를 유발하였다. 이러한 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 순수 광신호 증폭시스템인 어븀첨가광섬유증폭기 (EDFA)를 제작하고 EDFA의 이득평탄화를 위하여 이득평탄화 필터로 MLPFG를 제작하여 적용하였다. 제작된 EDFA는 20dB 이상의 신호 증폭을 보였다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.373-376
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• 2002

An asymmetrical directional coupler with two nonidentical fibers has, for the first time, been proposed and analyzed for an EDFA gain flattening filter (GFF). The characteristics of the transmission spectra of the GFFs have been theoretically investigated for the core spacings, the coupling lengths and the fiber parameters of the asymmetrical directional coupler. The analytical results show that an EDFA gain spectrum with flatness of ~7 ㏈ can be flattened to within $\pm$0.75 ㏈ over a bandwidth of 30 nm by using the asymmetrical directional coupler-based GFF.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.80-81
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• 2000

최근 통신 서비스의 증가에 따라 대용량의 전송 용량이 요구되고 있으며, 이에 대한 해결책으로 파장분할다중(WDM) 방식의 광전송에 관한 많은 연구가 수행되었다. EDFA는 1550 nm 근처에서 이득 영역을 가지고 있기 때문에 장거리 광통신 시스템에 주된 광증폭기로 사용되고 있으나 파장에 따른 이득이 서로 다르게 나타나기 때문에, WDM 시스템에 이용하기 위해서는 EDFA의 이득 평탄화가 필요하며, 이에 대한 다양한 연구가 이루어지고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1757-1763
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• 2014

Optical wavelength division multiplexing signals of eight non-return-to-zero 10 Gb/s channels were transmitted on the long-haul link up to 720 km. The link span was composed of 80 km single mode fiber, dispersion compensation fiber for complete compensation, and EDFAs. A circulating loop method was applied to the link experiment and the loop was optimized for the transmission link. Wavelength-dependent gain variation of EDFA was compensated using EDFAs of opposite gain slopes without expensive gain flattening filters. Average OSNR was aggravated to 22 dB and the worst OSNR channel variation was 9.7 dB after the transmission. It was confirmed by analyzing optical spectra that this OSNR variation was mainly caused by the hole burning effect of EDFA.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.413-416
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• 1998

We have flattened the gain of EDFA by using a long-period FBG filter and AOTF's. The gain and optical SNR characteristics of the gain-flattened EDFA in long-haul transmission been evaluated in a recirculating EDFA loop. The gain variation was less than 4.6 dB and the optical SNR was higher than 14 dB over 20-nm wavelength range when the optical signal went through the EDFA as many as 200 times. These results indicate that this gain-flattened EDFA is applicable for ultra long-haul WDM optical transmissions over 8000 km.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.833-837
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• 2007

In this study, we have fabricated a gain flattened erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier. Gain flattening filters were realized by the strain-induced long period fiber gratings, which are made of periodically arrayed metal wires. Using the filter of $550{\mu}m$ period, spontaneous emission amplified at C-band wavelength by a 980nm pumping laser was flattened within 1dB of gain ripple. The performance of the simultaneous multi channel amplification was measured using a fabry-perot laser diode. Amplification ratio was above 20dB. This amplifier can be applied to the long distance transmission system based on a wavelength division multiplexing for boosting an attenuated signal.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.261-265
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• 2009

Our amplifier using an all optical method and a fixed GFF achieved automatic gain flatness throughput the C-band without any NF degradation, and simultaneously achieved a constant 25 dB gain, while input signals were varied between one channel and forty WDM channels. When thirty nine channels were added and dropped, the transient gain variation of the survival channel was not greater than the steady-state gain variation, and its wavelength dependency was negligible.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.181-185
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• 1998

Gain characteristic of concatenated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers(EDFA) are studied with a recirculating EDFA loop. For a non-flat gain EDFA, the 3 dB gain bandwidth was reduced to 6 nm after the 20th EDFA. However, for an optimized gain flattened EDFA, in a simple configuration, the 5 dB gain bandwidth was found to be 9nm, even after the 100th EDFA, corresponding to 8000km transmission. This results suggest that the simple optimized flat gain amplifier could be a good candidate for ultra-long distance wavelength division multiplexed transmissions.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.8-11
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• 2003

For the first time to our knowledge we have developed compact mechanically-induced long-period fiber grating devices which have an excellent tunability in the center wavelength and the depth of the notch. The compactness and ease to tune allow us to include them in other optical devices or systems. The devices were characterized by measuring their transmission spectra with different grating periods and applied pressures. We have also demonstrated the EDFA gain flattening using the mechanically-induced long-period fiber grating devices.