• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.128-133
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• 1997

The effects of twist induced birefringence on the polarization properties of Er and Nd fiber laser with a linear type cavity were experimentally observed and theoretically analyzed. As the twist rate increases, the polarization states of the polarization eigenmodes are found to be always linear, and their frequencies gradually coincide with each other, and their polarization directions rotate at about half of twist rate at large twist rates.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.151-155
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• 1998

A new Fabry-Perot tunable filter has been built with simple construction, which does not require any additional aligning and/or beam-confining components for the reduction of the diffraction loss. For this feature, one of the two fibers for the filter is processed to have a concave mirror whose curvature is the same as that of the wavefront of the Gaussian beam from the first fiber. After high reflection coatings, the two fibers are aligned to result in an FP filter whose bandwidth, free spectral range, and insertion loss is 1.47nm, 52nm, 5.6dB respectively.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.413-418
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• 1999

We report on the frequency response of microwave signal processing networks using optical fiber circuits. Microwave frequency rejection filters using Mach-Zehnder interferometer and Fabry-Perot interferometer are modelled theoretically and tested experimentally. Graphical representation method provides a simple tool for computating single mode fiber delay-line microwave filters. The calculated results are in good agreement with experimental results. A 36dB microwave frequency rejection filter is also demonstrated.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.291-299
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• 2016

We have investigated the ultimate limits of nonuniform grating couplers (NGCs) for optimized fiber coupling to silicon waveguides, compared to uniform grating couplers (UGCs). Simple grating coupler schemes, which can be fabricated in etching steps of the conventional complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process on silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers without forming any additional overlay structure, have been simulated numerically and demonstrated experimentally. Optimum values of the grating period, fill factor, and groove number for ultimate coupling efficiency of the NGCs are determined from finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation, and confirmed with experimentally demonstrated devices by comparison to those for the UGCs. Our simulated results indicate that maximum coupling efficiency of NGCs is possible when the minimum pattern size is below 50 nm, but the experimental value for the maximum coupling efficiency is limited by the attainable fabrication tolerance in a practical device process.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.23-26
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• 2018

Optical-layer restoration has been demonstrated with a wavelength-blocker (WB) -based reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer (ROADM). Two $2{\times}2$ optical switches with a control circuit were placed before and after a WB-based ROADM to provide automatic path restoration under fiber-failure conditions. Using the proposed node configuration, a 3-node self-healing ring (SHR) network has been implemented to demonstrate the feasibility of the automatic optical-layer restoration. From the results, the restoration time was measured to be ~4 ms under fiber-failure conditions, without any additional power penalty in receiver sensitivity.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.96-100
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• 2018

A tunable low-phase-noise microwave generation structure that utilizes an optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) and a fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed and experimentally demonstrated in this article. This structure has no particular requirement for the band width of the laser, and its tunability is realized through adjusting the central frequency of the tunable FBG. A detailed theoretical analysis is established and confirmed via an experiment. A high-purity microwave signal with a frequency tunable from 6 to 12 GHz is generated. The single-sideband phase noise of the generated signal at 10.2 GHz is -117.2 dBc/Hz, at a frequency offset of 10 kHz.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.181-185
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• 1998

Gain characteristic of concatenated erbium-doped fiber amplifiers(EDFA) are studied with a recirculating EDFA loop. For a non-flat gain EDFA, the 3 dB gain bandwidth was reduced to 6 nm after the 20th EDFA. However, for an optimized gain flattened EDFA, in a simple configuration, the 5 dB gain bandwidth was found to be 9nm, even after the 100th EDFA, corresponding to 8000km transmission. This results suggest that the simple optimized flat gain amplifier could be a good candidate for ultra-long distance wavelength division multiplexed transmissions.

• Proceedings of the Korean Fiber Society Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.28-31
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• 1998

Photoresponsive polymers are being intensely investigated over last two decades, which can be attributed to both fundamental and applied significance. Presently the attention is being directed to these materials in view of their possible application in nonlinear optics and optoelectronics. It was demnstrated quite early that by covalent fixation of both photochromic group and the mesogenic group to the same polymer main chain high concentration of photochromic group can be attained.(omitted)

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.291-297
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• 1994

A feedback loop with bandpass filter is introduced in erbium-doped fiber amplifier to clamp the amplifier gain by lasing the amplifier at a selected wavelength. The gain and the ASE (amplified spontaneous emission) output spectra are found to be independent of input signal power and pump power variation so long as the amplifier is lasing. Also they are found to be dependent only on the overall loss of the feedback loop. Even in the case of slowly modulated large signal input, signal distortion due to gain saturation is not observed.served.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.152-157
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• 1994

A fiber-optic interferometric sensor array capable of passive remote sensing is demonstrated with two sensors at the array head. The signal from a specific sensor could be separated in time domain. The measured sensitivity at signal frequencies of a few kHz and cross talk level between two sensors were about $40{\mu}rad\sqrt{Hz}$and below - 50 dB, respectively.tively.