• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권2호
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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.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 1996년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.114-117
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• 1996

The wavelength selectivity in grating-assisted optical waveguide couplers is studied using a matrix method to analyse optical filter characteristics. The matrix method is extended to both 2-system modes and all guided system modes. The influence of fundamental design parameters on the performances of the optical filters by waveguide couplers is discussed.

• 한국전자파학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전자파학회 2003년도 종합학술발표회 논문집 Vol.13 No.1
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• pp.126-130
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• 2003

The optical power transfer of TM modes in grating-assisted directional couplers (GADCs) with three-guiding channels is rigorously evaluated by defining a novel coupling efficiency amenable to the rigorous analytical solutions of modal transmission-line theory (MTLT). The results reveal that the incident power is sensitively partitioned through three output channels in terms of such grating parameters as the period, the duty cycle, and wavelength.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2008

다중 모드 간섭 결합기를 소형화하기 위한 새로운 구조가 본 논문에서 제안되었다. N개의 입/출력 단자를 갖는 $N{\times}N$ MMI 결합기의 결합길이는 MMI 영역 폭의 증가에 따라 2의 급수에 비례하여 증가한다. 그 결과 많은 N개의 단자로 구성된 MMI 결합기를 설계 할 경우 소자의 크기가 기하급수적으로 커진다. 그러므로, 설계 시에 발생하는 문제를 해결하기 위하여 기존에 제안되어 왔던 MMI 결합기보다 더운 작은 소자크기를 갖는 새로운 나비형 격자구조 MMI 결합기를 제안하고 분석하였다. 또한, 제안한 소자에 대한 이론적 분석을 통하여 새로운 설계 기준을 제시하였고 수치해석적 결과와 비교 분석하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제34D권7호
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• pp.79-87
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• 1997

Untill now, the most well-known cofiguration for waveguide grating router(WGR) is composed of radiative star couplers and arrayed waveguide grating(AWG), which usually suffer form the rdiation loss of around 3dB or more. Therefore, te improved design of WGRs is needed to reduce the loss. In ths paper, we propose a novel WGR composed of multimode interference couplers which have good unifiormity, fabrication tolerance, and very low excess loss, and suggest the efficient algorithm to find the proper path length differences of AWG for given channel spacing and channel assignment to each output prot. The simulated spectral responses of the proposed WGR using the finite difference beam propagation method (BPM) show that the excess loss is less than 0.3dB and the crosstalk less than -25dB in case of 4x4 WGR, and the excess loss less than 0.4dB and the crosstalk less than -25dB in case of 8x8 WGR for all the channel wavelengths.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2004년도 ICEIC The International Conference on Electronics Informations and Communications
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• pp.276-280
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• 2004

This paper first takes advantage of a rigorous modal transmission-line theory (MTLT) to analyze the filtering properties of optical waves guiding by grating-assisted fiber couplers (GAFCs). The numerical results reveal that MTLT serves as a suitable and powerful approach to evaluate systematically the dispersion properties and the characteristics of optical power transfer in GAFCs.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 ITC-CSCC -2
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• pp.945-948
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• 2000

The coupling properties of supermodes guided by grating-assisted directional couplers (GADCs) can be phrased in rigorous modal theory. Such a modal solution for TE modes expressed by simple electrical transmission-line networks is utilized to analyze the power distribution of GADCS with three guiding channels. In particular, the modal transmission-line theory can serve as a template for computational algorithms that systematically evaluate the coupling efficiency that are not readily obtained by other methods.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.2526-2532
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• 1996

In this paper, the efficient algorithm for design of waveguide grating router(WGR) composed of star couplers is proposed. It is well demostrated that a star coupler design can be easily adjusted to the optimumstate using the proposed design method, which analyzes relations between various parameters. This method enables designers to estimate the spectral properties of waveguide grating router at the initial design level of the star coupler. A 5*5 WGR with 2.75nm(343GHz) channel spacing is designed using the proposed scheme. The BPM(Beam Propagation Method) simulation results show that the channel spacing of the WGR agrees very well with the design, the excess loss is smaller than 2.5dB, and the crosstalk is less than -21dB.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.120-126
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• 2006

격자 구조형 평면도파로와 원통형 광섬유로 구성된 격자구조형 광섬유 결합기(GAFC)를 제안하였고, 그 최적 전력결합 특성을 종방향 모드 전송선로이론(L-MTLT)에 기초하여 분석하였다. 또한, 격자 구조형 평면도파로에서 입사된 광신호가 단일 모드 광섬유로 결합되기 위한 새로운 최적 조건들을 제시하였다. 수치해석 결과 GAFCs에서 최적 전력결합 특성은 기존에 널리 사용하는 위상정합 조건이 아닌 새로운 조건(즉, 정확한 모드의 최소간격 조건)에서 나타났다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 1988

A new type broadband channel dropping filter which has a potential use as a millimeter-wave multiplexer has been realized by properly connecting 3-dB directional couplers and bandstop filters. 90\ulcorner3-dB directional couplers have been designed using two nonuniformly coupled dielectric image guides, while bandstop filters with Chebyshev passbands have been designed using dielectric image-guide grating structure. Effective dielectric constant method has been aplied to the image-guide dispersion analysis and to the design of bandstop gratings and 3-dB couplers. Experimental results in excellent agreement with computed responses are demonstrated.