• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.240-244
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• 2009

An Er-doped superfluorescent fiber source is designed and constructed with the double-pass forward configuration, which aims at high stability of its mean wavelength against temperature variation. As a result, thermal stability of mean wavelength better than 1 ppm is obtained against the temperature variation of ${\pm}5^{\circ}C$ around the optimum operating temperature. The optimum operating temperature can be tuned with the Er-doped fiber length and the pump power.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.449-453
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• 2003

자이로스코프용 광대역폭 erbium 첨가 광섬유 광원에서 중심파장의 편광의존성을 억제하기 위하여 펌프광의 편광을 변조함으로써 스크램블링하는 방식을 사용하였다. 원통형 PZT에 광섬유를 감은 형태의 편광변조기에 적정진폭의 변조를 가함으로써 펌프광의 편광도(시간평균치)를 1.4%까지 낮출 수 있었다. 펌프 편광 스크램블러와 출력단 depolarizer를 함께 사용한 경우에 임의의 편광변화에 대한 광원의 중심파장 변화가 측정기의 측정한계(∼5 ppm) 이하로 관찰되었다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제37권8호
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• pp.781-786
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• 2000

An Er-doped sulfide fiber was drawn, and its spectroscopic properties were analyzed. Compositions of a 1000 ppmwt Er3+-doped core and an undoped clad were Ge30-Ga1-Asg-S61 and Ge30-As8-S62, in at.%, respectively. Refractive index of the core composition was approximately 0.01 high than that of the clad. In order to enhance the mechanical stability as well as to prevent infiltration of impurity ions such as OH-, an UV-curable polymer was used for the coating. The optical loss of a fiber formed directly from a polymer coated core rod without cladding was ∼15 dB/m at 1.06$\mu\textrm{m}$. In the case of a fiber with core/clad structure, the optical loss was so high that the stimulated emission of erbium fluorescence was not evident. It is believed that presence of inhomogeneous core/clad interface and crystalline aggregates precipitated in the clad region were responsible for the high optical loss. On the other hand, fluorescence characteristics of Er3+ embedded in the core region were more or loss deteriorate compared to fiber preform, which is attributed to the redistribution of the Er ions along with the partial crystallization of the core glass during the fiberization process.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.779-784
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• 2007

In this paper, we report the experimental results of a hybrid wideband fiber amplifier. The amplifying medium is a concatenated hybrid fiber consisting of Er-doped fiber (EDF) and dispersion compensating fiber (DCF). The gain mechanisms are based on stimulated emission in the EDF and stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) in the DCF. Since we simultaneously use optical amplification by the two processes, the gain bandwidth is easily expanded over 105 nm by a two-tone pumping scheme. Using an experimental setup constructed with a hybrid structure of EDF-DCF-EDF, we analyzed the spectral behavior of amplified spontaneous emission for pumping powers. We achieved an optical gain of over 20 dB in the wavelength range from 1,500 to 1,600 nm under optimized pumping conditions to make the spectral gain shape flat.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.101-107
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• 1993

3준위 레이저 rate equation 및 overlap integral로부터 파장 1.48 ${\mu}m$에서 여기된 E$r^{3+}$ 첨가 광섬유 광증폭기를 위한 광섬유 매개 변수의 최적 조건을 계산하였다. 이 계산으로부터 Er3+ 첨가 광섬유 광섬유 광증폭기의 소신호 이득(small signal gain) 특성을 개구수 (N.A.), V값, 광섬유 길이, 차단 파장(cutoff wavelength) 등의 함수로 알아 보았으며 또한, 최대 소신호 이득을 갖기 위한 광섬유 매개 변수를 결정하였다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2000년도 제11회 정기총회 및 00년 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.96-97
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• 2000

Incoherent broadband optical sources have been applied in various areas such as a light source for optical device characterization, fiber-optic gyroscopes$^{(1)}$ , and spectrum sliced light source in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) system$^{(2)}$ . To utilize the inherent low loss in silica optical fibers, various types of incoherent light sources are being developed. Among the light sources, the amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) from a rare earth doped fiber has benefits in temperature stability, high output power, low polarization dependence over semiconductor diodes$^{(3)}$ . Recently erbium doped fibers (EDF) have been intensively researched for ASE sources as well as optical amplifiers$^{(4)}$ . The spectrum of ASE from an EDF, however, is limited in the 1520~1560 nm range in conventional configurations. In this letter we described a new broadband ASE source which included both the conventional ASE band of Er$^{3+}$ ion, 1520nm~1560nm and ASE band from Tm$^{3+}$ ions that extends the bandwidth further. For the first time, to the best knowledge of authors, a fiber ASE source based on the energy transfer between Er$^{3+}$ and Tm$^{3+}$ ions in the range of 1460~1550 nm, has been demonstrated using a single 980nm pump laser diode. (omitted)omitted)

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2003년도 추계학술발표강연 및 논문개요집
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• pp.136-136
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• 2003

In fiber optic networks, system size and cost can be significantly reduced by development of optical components through planar optical waveguides. One important step to realize the compact optical devices is to develop planar optical amplifier to compensate the losses in splitter or other components. Planar amplifier provides optical gain in devices less than tens of centimeters long, as opposed to fiber amplifiers with lengths of typically tens of meters. To achieve the same amount of gain between the planar and fiber optical amplifier, much higher Er doping levels responsible for the gain than in the fiber amplifier are required due to the reduced path length. These doping must be done without the loss of homogeniety to minimize Er ion-ion interactions which reduce gain by co-operative upconversion. Sol-gel process has become a feasible method to allow the incorporation of Er ion concentrations higher than conventional glass melting methods. In this work, Er-doped $SiO_2$-A1$_2$ $O_3$ films were prepared by two different method via sol -Eel process. Tetraethylorthosilicate(TEOS)/aluminum secondary butoxide [Al (OC$_4$ $H_{9}$)$_3$], methacryloxypropylcnethoxysaane(MPTS)/aluminum secondary butofde [Al(OC$_4$ $H_{9}$)$_3$] systems were used as starting materials for hosting Er ions. Er-doped $SiO_2$-A1$_2$ $O_3$ films obtahed after heat-treating, coatings on Si substrate were characterized by X-ray din action, FT-IR, and N-IR fluorescence spectroscopy. The luminescence properties for two different processing procedure will be compared and discussed from peak intensity and life time.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.675-676
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• 2012

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2011년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.851-852
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• 2011

• 한국광학회지
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.286-290
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• 1994

어븀 첨가된 광섬유로 레이저 공진기를 구성하여 공진기의 결합기 반사율과 펌프 파워에 따른 출력 특성을 조사하고, 공진기의 양쪽 거울의 반사율에 따른 레이저 발진 파장의 변화를 어븀 광섬유의 흡수 및 이득 스펙트럼과 공진기 구성 파라미터를 이용한 계산으로 분석하였다. 최대 경사 효율은 양쪽 공진기 거울의 반사율이 100%와 4%일 때 38%이었고, 문턱 펌프 파워는 양쪽 반사율이 4~4%에서 100~90%로 증가함에 따라 7.8mW에서 5.6mW로 낮아졌다. 공진기 반사율의 변화에 대해 어븀 광섬유의 길이가 15.8m일 때는 $1.558~1.570\mum$에서 레이저의 발진이 이루어졌으며 6m일 때는 밀도 반전율의 증가로 어븀의 형광 대역의 낮은 영역인 $1.532~1.563\mum$ 사이에서 발진 파장이 형성되었다.