• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.236-239
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• 1998

We constructed a frequency doubler with a frequency-stabilized Nd:YAG Laser, a nonlinear crystal KTP, and an external resonant cavity. Using type II phase-making method and a resonant cavity, one usually have a serious problem that the second harmonic conversion efficiency is decreased greatly, for under usual circumstances ordinary ray and extraorninary ray cannot be resonated in a cavity simultaneously. With the change of temperature and incident angle of KTP, we found an optimized condition for the phase-matching and double-resonance. As a result we produced 26 mW of green light with 318 mW of fundamental laser power from a cw Nd:YAG laser.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.96-99
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• 1998

In this study, a novel long term stabilization method of optical feedback for the resonant cavity coupled semiconductor lasers is proposed, and its utility was shown experimentally. The proposed method is realized by using the pahse discriminator of optical feedback with high gain. The phase discriminating signal was obtained by the polarization spectroscopic technique using reflection light from the external reflector, which is a confocal Fabry-Perot cavity. Experimental result shows that stable control state can be maintained up to 20 hours. The period can be increased by reducing size of the system and/or fixing position stably of optical parts used, which were arranged on an optical table by using magnetic bases in this experiment. The proposed long-term stabilization method of optical feedack of a resonant external cavity coupled semiconductor laser is very useful for the field of high sensitivity measurement, and for the use in the laboratory level in particular.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Potoscience Conference
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.141-141
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• 2005

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.257-262
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• 2001

A Littman type tunable external-cavity diode laser system was developed. The laser output which is the Oth-order diffracted beam from a diffraction grating in an external cavity is a single longitudinal mode. Its FWHM was measured as less than 9 MHz. With the diode driving current of 140 mA and operating temperature of $25^{\circ}C$, the coarse tuning range of 3.475 urn was measured. A fine tuning experiment in which an external mirror was rotated by a PZT driven by a sawtooth wave was performed, and its tuning range of 0.042 urn was measured. sured.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.235-239
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• 2002

A novel ultra-narrow linewidth DFB laser in the extended FBG ring cavity having kHz linewidth is presented. The method of linewidth compression was realized by introducing an extended fiber ring cavity into the cavity between the external FBG and the Bragg grating inside a DFB laser diode. Optimum optical feedback control was achieved by using an optical circulator and a variable optical attenuator to prevent mode hopping induced by spatial hole burning. To prove the validity of the proposed scheme, a self-heterodyne measurement set-up with fiber delay line of 63 km was utilized for the ultra-narrow linewidth measurement. A 3 dB linewidth of less than 3 kHz was demonstrated, which is resolution limited performance. This linewidth is equivalent to 3 dB linewidth of 2$\times$10$^{-8}$ nm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.172-176
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• 2013

For demonstrating widely tunable external cavity lasers operating for near-infrared (NIR) wavelength, a flexible polymer waveguide with an imbedded Bragg grating is incorporated. Due to the superior flexibility of the polymer material, the reflection wavelength of the Bragg grating is widely tunable by imposing tensile and compressive strains on the flexible Bragg grating. A third-order Bragg grating is formed on the device for facilitating the fabrication method. With a superluminescent laser diode as a gain medium of ECL, the tunable laser exhibited output power of -3 dBm and a tuning range of 32 nm.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.66-72
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• 1993

Additive-pulse mode-locking (APM) was performed in a $1.053{\mu}m$ cw Nd:YLF laser by coupling a nonlinear external external cavity to the main cavity. The APM pulsewidth was 4.5 ps and the average output power was 1.5 W. This APM pulse was compressed by an optical fiber and a grating pair to be as short as 210 fs with a peak power of 17 kW.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.52-53
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• 2005

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.321-326
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• 2003

We constructed grating- tuned external cavity semiconductor lasers using Littman and Littrow configuration, for which the wavelengths are tuned by rotation of the grating. This wavelength tunable semiconductor laser is one of the main devices of WDM optical communication. In Littman configuration, the wavelength range of about 60 nm (The C- and L-band range of 1,530~1,590 nm) was obtained by changing the incidence angle of the grating about $\pm$1$^{\circ}$ from the incidence angle of 70$^{\circ}$. In the 40 nm tuning range, the output power variation was less than 1.25 ㏈ and the side mode suppression ratio(SMSR) was 32 ㏈. In Littrow configuration (The incidence angle and the first order diffraction angle is the same, i.e. $\alpha$=$\delta$), the wavelength tuning range was about 80 nm for the same conditions used in Littman configuration except the incidence angle ($\alpha$=49$^{\circ}$). In 60 nm tuning range, the output power variation was less than 1.5 ㏈ and SMSR was 35 ㏈.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.179-183
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• 2011

An external cavity laser operating at near infrared wavelength is demonstrated by incorporating polymer waveguide Bragg reflectors. 3rd order Bragg grating and oversized rip waveguide structure were designed by using the effective index method and the transmission matrix method. The polymer waveguide was fabricated using polymer materials with refractive indices of 1.462 and 1.435 for the core and the cladding layers, respectively. The external feedback laser with 875-nm Bragg grating exhibits single mode lasing located at 850-nm wavelength with an output power of 0 dBm, a 20-dB bandwidth of 0.2 nm and a side mode suppression ratio of 40 dB.