• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.04b
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• pp.109-111
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• 2002

We have demonstrated all-opticalflip-flop based on optical bistability in a SOA/DFB-SOA with broadband gain. Input signal with the wavelength of 1340.23 nm or 1680.93 nm and the current of about 98% of the lasing threshold is injected into theDFB-SOA. Current injected into SOA is 80 mA All-optical flip-flop has various applications such as all-optical memory, demultiplexing, packet-header buffering, and retiming.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.148-149
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• 2001

순광학적 스위치와 logic gate는 초고속 networks와 컴퓨터를 위한 차세대의 기술로 부각되고 있다. 현재 사용되고 있는 전자적인 switching, routing, 신호 처리들은 대용량 고속화에 그 한계를 나타내고 있다. 미래에 요구되는 초고속 광 네트워크의 계획은 광학 스위치와 광 변조장치가 필요하다는 것을 지적하고있다 최근에 전자나 광전자적으로 가능한 것 이상으로 미래에 요구되는 Tera bits/sec에 접근할 수 있는 고속 연산과 신호처리가 가능한 스위칭에 관한 연구가 활발이 진행되고 있다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.492-499
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• 1997

We proposed and studied an all-optical switching device made of a bent nonlinear waveguide and an all-optical logic gate made of a bent nonlinear Y-junction. The proposed devices as switch and a logic function are based on the evolution of nonlinear guided wave along a bent nonlinear waveguide. Since the characteristics of beam propagation depens on the nonlinearity, input power and bent angle of waveguide, the characteristics of output power transmission is calculated by variation the such parameters. Furthermore, by calculating the output power through the nonlinear media with different positions of detector in nonlinear media, we could find the ideal digital switching performance at specific position of detector and implement several all-optical logic functions (AND, OR, XOR) by power contrast between waveguide end and nonlinear media.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.60-67
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• 2008

An all-optical 4-bit Gray code to binary coded decimal (BCD) converter by means of commercially available numerical analysis tool (VPI) was demonstrated, for the first time to our knowledge. Circuit design approach was modified appropriately in order to fit the electrical method on an all-optical logic circuit based on a cross gain modulation (XGM) process so that signal degradation due to the non-ideal optical logic gates can be minimized. Without regenerations, Q-factor of around 4 was obtained for the most severely degraded output bit (least significant bit-LSB) with 2.5 Gbps clean input signals having 20 dB extinction ratio. While modifying the two-level simplification method and Karnaugh map method to design a Gray code to BCD converter, a general design concept was also founded (one-level simplification) in this research, not only for the Gray code to BCD converter but also for any general applications.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.530-534
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• 2003

A novel all-optical NOR gate is proposed and demonstrated for the first time by use of gain saturation in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). It is operated by the nonlinearity of the SOA gain. Hence, to obtain sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier at the input of the SOA. The operation characteristics of the all-optical NOR gate are successfully measured at 10 Gbit/s.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.317-319
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• 2002

All-optical switching has been demonstrated in bacteriorhodopsin (bR) based on nonlinear intensity induced excited state absorption. The transmission of a cw probe laser beam at 410 nm corresponding to the peak absorption of M state through a bR film is switched by a pulsed pump laser beam at 570 nm that corresponds to the maximum initial 8 state absorption. The switching characteristics have been analyzed using the rate equation approach considering all the six intermediate states (B, K, L, M, N and 0) in the bR photocycle. The switching characteristics are shown to be sensitive to life time of the M state, absorption cross-section of the 8 state at probe wavelength ($\sigma$ $\_$Bp/) and peak pump intensity. It has been shown that the probe laser beam can be completely switched off (100 % modulation) by the pump laser beam at relatively low pump powers, for $\sigma$$\_$Bp/ = O. The switching characteristics have been used to design all-optical NOT, OR, AND and the universal NOR and NAND logic gates for optical computing with two pulsed pump laser beams.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.150-151
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• 2001

광컴퓨터에 있어서 비선형 물질의 역할은 매우 중요하다. 그러한 비선형 물질들은 빛과 상호작용하고 빛의 성질을 변조시킨다. 광컴퓨터의 몇몇 구성 성분들은 그들이 작용하는데 있어서 중요한 비선형물질을 필요로 한다. 하지만 모든 광학적 장치들의 사용이 사실상 제한되는 것은 현재 이용할 수 있는 비선형 광물질이 비효과적이고 응답과 스위칭에 대해서 많은 에너지를 필요로 하기 때문이다. (중략)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.143-146
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• 2012

All-optical data extraction, one of the key technologies for all-optical computing and optical communication to perform add-drop, packet switching, and data reset, etc., is experimentally demonstrated by using cross-gain modulation (XGM) of semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs). Also, all-optical data extraction based on numerical simulation is performed by using the VPI simulation tool. In this paper, the suggested optical system based on SOAs shows the potential for high speed, and highly integrable and low power optical data computing.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.197-200
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• 2000

All-optical NOR logic device was realized by use of two pump signals with a single wavelength and a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA). Specially, Mach-Zehnder(MZ) modulator was used for an external modulation of the pump signals. To obtain the sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier(EDFA) at the input of the SOA. Pump and probe signals are obtained from a DFB laser diode(${\lambda}_p$=1554 nm) and a tunable laser diode(${\lambda}_s$=1535 nm), respectively. The operation characteristics of the NOR logic device are successfully measured and demonstrated at the modulation frequency of 4.83 MHz.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.167-168
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• 2009