• 한국광학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.146-149
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• 2014

The homogeneous line broadening in EDF leads to unstable lasing and strong mode competition. In this paper a multiwavelength fiber ring laser that overcomes these effects by using variable attenuators between the DWDM and $1{\times}N$ coupler, has been proposed. Fiber ring lasers with four and eight wavelength outputs are implemented, and we show that the output powers can be adjusted with stable operation. The EDF ring laser has one four-wavelength output and four of single wavelengths, with OSNR of 50 and 60 dB respectively.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.99-102
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• 2005

광섬유 링 레이저의 출력파장 가변을 위해서 신뢰성있는 새로운 스트레인 인가장치를 제작하고 이 장치를 이용하여 파장가변 광섬유 링 레이저를 구현하였다. 제작된 광섬유 링 레이저의 출력파워는 -12 dBm이었으며, 선폭은 0.05 nm이었다. 새로운 스트레인 인가장치를 이용하여 광섬유에 8000 $\mu$ strain을 인가하였을 때 광섬유 링 레이저의 출력파장은 약 10 nm 가변되는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.406-413
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• 2014

An optical true-time delay beam-forming system using a tunable dispersion compensating module (DCM) for dense-wavelength division modulation (DWDM) and a multiwavelength fiber ring laser for a phased array antenna is proposed. The multiwavelength fiber ring laser has one output that includes four wavelengths; and four outputs that include only single-wavelength. The advantage of such a multiwavelength fiber ring laser is that it minimizes the number of devices in the phased array antenna system. The time delays according to wavelengths, which are assigned for each antenna element, are obtained from the tunable DCM. The tunable DCM based on a temperature adjustable Fabry-Perot etalon is used. As an experimental result, a DCM could be used to obtain the change of the beam angle by adjusting the dispersion value of the DCM at the fixed lasing wavelengths of the fiber ring laser in the proposed optical true-time delay.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권11호
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• pp.1995-1997
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• 2007

In this paper we propose a wavelength-switchable fiber ring laser that employs a polarization-dependent fiber band stop filter. The fiber filter was fabricated by inscribing a long-period fiber grating on a high birefringent fiber. Dual-wavelength switching operation was accomplished by controlling the rotatable linear polarizer which rotated the polarization plane of the light circulating through the fiber laser cavity. The amplitude variation of both laser lines was measured to be less than 0.5 dB and the signal-to-amplified spontaneous emission ratio was more than 55 dB.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2010

Fiber ring laser based intra-cavity absorption spectroscopic sensor has great potential for high sensitivity gas detection. Using the rate equations and propagation equations, we investigated theoretically factors that affect the sensitivity of such fiber ring laser sensors and determined the optimal design parameters and conditions for significant enhancement of the system sensitivity. Experiments have been conducted to determine the sensitivity enhancement performance. The results showed a factor of 25 ~ 30 in sensitivity enhancement in the experimental system, agreeing well with the theoretical expectations. Experiments on acetylene detection have also been carried out and the results showed that the ring cavity significantly increases the signal absorption and that high sensitivity can be obtained for gas detection.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.153-158
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• 2009

Stable and tunable dual-wavelength erbium-doped fiber ring laser(EDFL) using a single fiber Bragg grating(FBG) and two coil heaters is proposed and demonstrated. Installing two identical coils into a single FBG, the FBG is symmetrically divided into two different portions. While a current supply to the coil, the refractive index of the FBG under the coil is changed. The FBG can operate as a joint of two different FBGs. Due to the thermo-optic effect of a fiber, the resonance wavelength split into two peaks. The spacing between two adjacent channels was changed as much as the difference of heating power. It was tuned up to 3 nm of wavelength under the electrical power with a 1000 mW. Moreover, the lasing wavelength can be individually tuned without influencing to the adjacent channel.

• 산업기술연구
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• 제26권A호
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• pp.95-99
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• 2006

In this paper, we proposed the new wavelength tunable filter for wide tunability of fiber ring laser. The proposed filter consists of the cascaded connection of Fiber Reflection Mach-Zehnder Interferometer and Sagnac filter or of hybrid filter and Fiber Reflection Mach-Zehnder Interferometer. The simulation shows that the continuous tunable range of 50nm can be obtained and that more stable single mode operation of ring laser can be expected due to narrow FWHM. of filter spectrum.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.650-656
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• 2014

We propose a novel active fiber design for selectively generating cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) or cylindrical vector modes (CVMs) which can be applied to conventional fiber lasers. A fiber is designed to have a ring-shaped core refractive index profile which can lead to the best overlap between the active dopant distribution profile and the lowest-order CVM (LCVM) field profile. Therefore, the overlap factor (OVF) of the LCVM becomes even higher than that of the fundamental mode. We emphasize that this condition cannot be satisfied by a conventional step-index core fiber (SICF) but by the ring-doped core fiber (RDCF). Because the lasing threshold is inversely proportional to the OVF, the LCVM can predominantly be stimulated even without going through special procedures to impose extra loss mechanisms to the fundamental mode. We numerically verify that the OVF of the LCVM with the doped ions can significantly exceed that of the fundamental mode if the proposed fiber design is applied. In addition, an RDCF of the proposed fiber design can also operate in a regime containing no higher-order modes besides the LCVM, so that it can selectively and efficiently generate the LCVM without being disrupted by the parasitic lasing of the higher-order modes. We highlight that an optimized RDCF can lead to a >30 % higher OVF ratio than a SICF having the same doped area. The proposed model is expected to be useful for enhancing the efficiency of generating CVBs in an all-fiber format.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12A호
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• pp.1177-1181
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 링 레이저를 위한 새로운 광대역 파장 가변 필터를 제안하였다. 두 종류의 필터를 제안하였는데, Fiber Reflection Mach-Zehnder Interferometer와 Sagnac필터로 구성된 것과 하이브리드 필터와 Fiber Reflection Mach-Zehnder Interferometer로 구성된 것이다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 50nm의 연속적인 파장 가변을 얻을 수 있음을 알 수 있었고, 기존의 필터에 비해 파장 가변 범위가 3배에 이르면서도 FWHM이 1/3로 줄어든 통과 스펙트럼 특성을 얻을 수 있었다. 이는 링 레이저의 광대력 파장 가변 및 안정적인 단일모드 발진을 더욱 가능케 하는 중요한 특성이다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.674-679
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 C-밴드와 L-밴드 파장(1525 nm-1625 nm)에서 파장 변화가 가능한 광섬유 링 레이저를 제작하고, 이를 이용하여 아세틸렌 분자 전이선에 대한 분광연구를 수행하였다. 제작된 광섬유 링 레이저는 공진기 내부에 FFP-TF(Fiber Fabry-Perot Tunable Filter)를 이용하여 약 102 nm(1510.4-1612.6 nm)의 범위에서 파장을 연속 가변할 수 있었다. 광섬유 링 레이저의 파장가변특성을 이용하여 C-밴드(1525-1565 nm)에서 흡수선이 많은 아세틸렌($^{13}$C$_2$H$_2$)분자에서 50개 이상의 전이선에 대하여 높은 신호대 잡음비를 갖는 흡수 스펙트럼을 측정하였다.