• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.174-180
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• 2016

A tunable optical delay line is designed, fabricated, and characterized. The tunable delay line consists of four polymer-ring add/drop filters with delay waveguides between adjacent ones. The polymer waveguide is a buried structure, designed to be square with core width and height of $1.8{\mu}m$. The refractive indices of the core and cladding polymer are 1.48 and 1.37 respectively. The large index difference and small cross section of the waveguide enable us to realize a compact device using a small radius of curvature. Four pairs of electrodes are evaporated above the add/drop filters to provide heating currents for thermal tuning. In measurements we can identify variable time delays of 110, 225, and 330 ps in proportion to the number of delay lines.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.140-141
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• 2000

집적광학 회로의 구성요소 중 광 결합기는 파장에 따른 채널간 결합기로써 WDM은 물론 광 스위칭 소자로서 매우 중요한 위치에 있다. 더우기 수직형의 구조를 갖는 광결합기가 새로이 제안되면서 결합 길이를 줄여 전체 소자길이를 감소시킴으로써 고집적화는 물론, 도파로를 진행하는 동안 겪게되는 도파 손실을 최소화하려는 움직임 또한 활발하다. 그러나 이들 수직형 광결합기는 결합효율을 높이기 위하여 대부분 상 하부 도파로의 구조가 동일한 대칭형으로 제작됨에 따라, 이들은 매우 까다롭고 복잡한 공정을 갖게된다. 또한 이러한 공정의 복잡성과 두 도파로의 대칭성을 위한 반복작업은 오히려 제작공정의 불완전함으로 인하여 이론상의 이상적 결합에 비하여 효율이나 성능 면에서 상당한 저하를 가져오게 된다. 최근 연구되고있는 대부분의 폴리머를 이용한 광 결합기 역시 대칭형 구조를 가지며 $O_2$ RIE(Reactive ion etching) 건식 식각법으로 제작된다.$^{[1]}$ (중략)

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.867-871
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed and demonstrated a low loss $1{\times}4$ type plastic optical fiber(POF) coupler incorporating a polymer tapering waveguide region. To avoid leakage loss at the interfaces between the POF and the polymer waveguide, we employed two POF transition regions, in which the cross section of the POF is adiabatically converted from a circular to a rectangular shape without change of its cross-section area. The device was fabricated based on a injection mold made of a silicon rubber. The fabricated POF coupler showed 1.33 dB of excess loss and 2.2 dB of flatness.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.132-133
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• 2000

최근, 인터넷 등의 보급으로 인하여 급증하는 다양한 형태의 정보를 효과적으로 전송하기 위하여 파장분할다중화 광통신시스템 (wavelength division multiplexed optical communication system: WDM)이 활발히 개발 및 보급되어 왔다. 가변 광감쇠기는 각 파장별 광신호의 세기를 균일하게 하여 장거리 전송을 가능하게 하는 WDM시스템의 핵심 소자이다. 폴리머 소자는 제작이 간편하고 가격이 저렴할 뿐 만 아니라 다른 소자와의 집적이 용이하고, 열광학 계수가 실리카에 비하여 10배 정도 커서 구동전력을 크게 줄일 수 있는 등의 장점으로 인하여 폴리머 광감쇠기가 활발하게 연구되어 왔다$^{(1)}$ . 본 논문에서는 미세 가공된 멤브레인형$^{(2)}$ 도파로를 이용한 저전력 폴리머 가변 광가쇠기에 관한 것이다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.371-380
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• 2006

We design and fabricate a novel tunable wavelength filter, which utilizes long-range surface plasmon-polaritons excited along nm-thick-metal strips. A gold metal strip, with $\sim$ cm length, 20 nm thickness, and $\sim$ 5$\mu$m width, is embedded in thick thermo-optic Polymer films supported by a silicon wafer. A dielectric Bragg grating structure is Placed on the metal strip, so that transmission signals at telecom wavelength are selected by thermal effect of the thermo-optic polymer. High extinction ratio of 25 dB and total insertion loss of $\sim$25 dB/cm can be measured by single-mode coupling of optical fibers. We also verify that wavelength tuning of the long-range surface plasmon-polariton filters can be achieved by electric current directly applied to the metal-strip waveguides.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.306-311
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• 2015

We report the characteristics of a single-wavelength-tunable fiber laser using a polymer waveguide Bragg grating (PWBG) wavelength filter. The output of the laser depends on environmental conditions, such as temperature and polarization states in the laser cavity. Wavelength tuning can be achieved, about 16.29 nm from 1548.24 nm to 1531.95 nm, according to the electric power applied to the PWBG wavelength filter. The achieved efficiency slope is about -0.16 nm/mW. A side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) of more than 35 dB can be obtained by adjusting the polarization state in the laser cavity. A stable wavelength-tunable fiber laser can be achieved using the PWBG wavelength filter with a TEC module and a polarization-maintaining fiber.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.248-253
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• 1999

In this paper, we have investigated a fiber type active coupler which utilizes the mode coupling between the side polished single mode optical fiber and the active multimode planar waveguide. The proposed device can be used for not only tunable wavelength filter or optical intensity modulator but also a tool for measuring optical properties of guiding material such as refractive index, birefringence, electro-optic coefficient, and thermo-optic coefficient. We gave designed and optimized a coupler structure using the BPM and fabricated the device using thermo-optic polymer as active planar waveguide overlay. The device showed that insertion loss was less then 0.5 dB, extinction ratio was -13 dB at the resonance wavelength, and the wavelength tunablity due to thermo-optic effect was -1.5 nm/$^{\circ}C$. The active coupler using thermo-optic effect can be used as a wavelength tunable filer, an optical intensity modulator and an optical sensor. 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.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.7
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• pp.42-49
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• 1999

In this paper, we proposed a simple measurement method to find the behaviors of the fiber-to-waveguide coupler. The polished fiber blocks and planar waveguides on silicon dioxide were fabricated independently and then optically coupled by physical pressure. Several kinds of polymer with different refractive indices were used for waveguide films. The proposed method makes it possible to measure the center wavelength, bandwidth, extinction ratio, and polarization dependence of the coupler during fabrication procedure. The wavelength sensitivity increased with refractive index of polymer. The symmetric planar waveguide structure and isotropic property of guiding materials reduced polarization dependent property. Insertion loss of the coupler was less than 0.5dB. It is expected that our measurement method is useful for developing various optical devices using evanescent coupling between polished fiber and planar waveguide such as optical modulators and filters etc.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.33-38
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• 2004

We have demonstrated a tunable Inter based on an asymmetric directional coupler made of a side-polished polarization maintaining fiber coupled with a polymer planar waveguide. The thermo-optic effects of the polymer planar waveguide induced by a micro-strip heater placed on the top layer of the device leads to shift of resonance wavelength of the coupler. The fabricated device exhibited wide tunable range exceeding 230 nm with 720 ㎽ of applied electrical power.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.245-249
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• 1997

An electro-optic polymer digital optical switch with a coupling region modified for optimum coupling is designed and demonstrated. Its branch waveguide is fabricated by reactive ion etching. Then, the modified coupling region is adiabatically introduced along the propagation direction from the branching point of the two waveguides, and it is implemented by photobleaching after the device fabrication. The structure of the modified coupling region and its refractive index profiles are designed to optimize and mode coupling in the Y-branch waveguide. Therefore, the switching performance of the device was shown to be enhanced with a fixed device length. The measured drive voltage is reduced by more than 30 percents, and the crosstalk is also improved by about 4~6 dB.