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Polarization-Dependent Property of Long-Period Liquid Crystal Fiber Gratings (액정 장주기 격자의 편광 특성)

  • Baek, Seung-In;Jeong, Yoon-Chan;Kang, Jin-Gu;Lee, Byoung-Ho
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2002.11a
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    • pp.46-47
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    • 2002
  • 최근 액정을 주입한 속이 빈 광섬유(Hollow fiber)와 주기적인 전극을 이용하여 전기적으로 제어 가능한 장주기 격자에 대해서 보고된 바 있다. 액정의 중요한 특성 중의 하나는 그 광축이 외부의 전기장에 의해 동적으로 재배열된다는 점이다. 또한 액정은 광축에 따라 굴절률이 다른 비등방성 물질이기 때문에 광축의 배열에 따라, 그리고 입사하는 빛의 편광에 따라 그 빛이 느끼는 굴절률이 달라지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 입사하는 빛의 편광에 따른 액정 장주기 광섬유 격자의 특성에 대해 연구하였다. 주기적인 전극의 길이는 3 cm이고 주기는 500 ${\mu}m$ 이다. 액정을 주입한 속이 빈 광섬유의 길이는 15 mm 이다. 입사하는 빛이 이상(extraordinary) 편광 상태일 때 약 6 dB 의 투과 손실을 나타냈으며 그 대역폭은 약 15 nm 이었다. 이 때 외부에서 인가한 전압은 150 V 였다. 입사하는 빛이 정상(ordinary) 편광 상태일 때에는 액정의 유효 굴절률이 외부 전기장에 대해 변하지 않기 때문에 장주기 투과 특성을 얻을 수 없었다.

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Electrically Controllable Fiber Bragg Gratings with Liquid Crystal Cladding

  • Baek Seungin;Roh Sookyoung;Na Jun-Hee;Kwon Jaejoong;Yoon Ilyong;Chung Seunghwan;Jeong Cherlhyun;Lee Sin-Doo;Lee Byoungho;Jeong Yoonchan
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2005
  • An electrically controllable fiber Bragg grating inscribed in a hydrogen-loaded standard single-mode fiber with liquid-crystal cladding is presented. Control of the optic axis of liquid crystals by means of external electric fields results in the change of reflectivity and Bragg wavelength of the grating. The increase of surrounding refractive index of a fiber makes effective refractive index of a propagation mode higher, which results in high field confinement and longer Bragg wavelength. The reduction of the fiber diameter by chemical etching process improves the long-range ordering of liquid-crystal molecules and reduces controlling voltage. The tunable ranges of reflectivity and Bragg wavelength of the liquid crystal-cladding fiber Bragg grating were $\~4.6dB\;and\;\~0.3nm$, respectively.

Analysis of the Electromagnetic Scattering by Conducting Strip Gratings with 2 Dielectric Layers (접지평면위에 2개의 유전체층을 가지는 도체띠 격자구조에서의 전자파산란 해석)

  • 김용연;방성일
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.102-109
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, Electromagnetic scattering problem by a perfectly conducting strip grating with 2 dielectric layer on a grounded plane by incidence of a electric wave is analyzed by applying the PMM (Point Matching Method) known as a simple procedure. The scattered electromagnetic fields are expanded in a series of Floquet mode functions. The boundary conditions are applied to obtain the unknown field coefficients and the conducting boundary condition is used for the relationship between the tangential electric field and the electric current density on the strip When the incident angle is normal incidence the minimum value of the geometrically normalized reflected power according as relative permittivity is increased it should be noted that the value of the strip width gets moved toward high value. Them most energy by a normal incident wave is scattered in direction of the other angles except normal incident angle.

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Strain Sensitivity of Fiber Optic Bragg Grating Sensor (광섬유 브래그 격자 센서의 변형률 감지도)

  • Kwon, Il-Bum;Choi, Man-Yong;Kim, Min-Soo
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.237-243
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    • 1999
  • Recently, there has been considerable interest in the development of fiber-optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), which can be made into Ge-doped fiber's core by UV phase mask or holographic methods. A good sensitivity and small size of this sensor make it an ideal candidate for distributed sensing in smart structures or other structural monitoring applications. In this study, fiber optic Bragg grating sensor, which could be applied to measure the absolute strains, was constructed and the strain sensitivity of this sensor was investigated in order to apply to the structural health monitoring. Fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) filter has been used to detect the optical signals instead of optical spectrum analyzer. It has been convenient to determine the structural strains from the output signal of FBGs. The fiber optic Bragg grating sensor was attached on the aluminum beam near the electrical strain gage to measure the same strain. The relationship between strain and fiber signal was linearly fitted. The strain sensitivity of the fiber optic Bragg grating sensor was determined as $l.57{\mu}{\varepsilon}/{\mu}sec$ from the aluminum beam test.

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Study on Size Evaluation by Surface Expansion for Soft Polymer Foam (연질 고분자 발포체의 표면팽창을 통한 치수평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min-Woo;Cho, Chong-Rae;Kim, Myoung-Hun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.63-68
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    • 2019
  • The dimensional quality of flexible foams is often difficult to be evaluated through general machine vision inspection methods due to the free deformation of the outer shape. For the evaluation of the dimensions of flexible foams, methods of estimating the size of the product through the expansion rate of the product surface are evaluated. Specimens with various dimensions and surface gratings are prepared, and the degree of surface expansion is measured through machine vision. The correlation, between the measured surface grid size and the actual size of test specimens, is analyzed. We further analyze the correlation between the size of test specimens and the position of the surface grid. This study provides a basis for estimating the actual dimensions of specimens by measuring the surface expansion of flexible foams.

External Cavity Laser with a Tunable Chirped Fiber Bragg Grating for Adjusting the Number of Longitudinal Laser Mode (외부 공진기 레이저의 발진 모드 수 조절에 관한 연구)

  • Yook, Tae-Kyung;Lee, Kyung-Shik;Park, Manh-Yong;Kim, Byoung-Whi
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.406-410
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    • 2005
  • we propose an external cavity laser which can adjust the number of longitudinal laser mode by using a tunable chirped fiber. Bragg grating. By inducing a tunable temperature gradient in a uniform fiber Bragg grating, the bandwidth of the unform fiber Bragg grating can be tuned. With the chirped fiber Bragg grating as an external reflector of the external cavity laser, the number of longitudinal laser mode was able to be tuned from one to two or three modes.

Wide-fan-angle Flat-top Linear Laser Beam Generated by Long-pitch Diffraction Gratings

  • Lee, Mu Hyeon;Ryu, Taesu;Kim, Young-Hoon;Yang, Jin-Kyu
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.500-505
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    • 2021
  • We demonstrated a wide-fan-angle flat-top irradiance pattern with a very narrow linewidth by using an aspheric lens and a long-pitch reflective diffraction grating. First, we numerically designed a diffraction-based linear beam homogenizer. The structure of the Al diffraction grating with an isosceles triangular shape was optimized with 0.1-mm pitch, 35.5° slope angle, and 0.02-mm radius of the rounding top. According to the numerical results, the linear uniformity of the irradiance was more sensitive to the working distance than to the shape of the Al grating. The designed Al grating reflector was fabricated by using a conventional mold injection and an Al coating process. A uniform linear irradiance of 405-nm laser diode with a 100-mm flat-top length and 0.176-mm linewidth was experimentally demonstrated at 140-mm working distance. We believe that our proposed linear beam homogenizer can be used in various potential applications at a precise inspection system such as three-dimensional morphology scanner with line lasers.

Gamma-radiation Effects on Fiber Bragg Gratings Written in Photo-sensitive and Commercial Single-mode Optical Fibers (광민감 광섬유와 일반 단일모드 광섬유로 제작한 브래그 격자 센서의 감마방사선 영향)

  • Kim, Jong-Yeol;Lee, Nam-Ho;Jung, Hyun-Kyu;Im, Don-Sun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.05a
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    • pp.701-704
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    • 2014
  • In this study, we studied the effect of $Co^{60}$ gamma-radiation on the FBGs written in photo-sensitive and commercial Ge-doped single-mode optical fibers. The FBGs were exposed to gamma-radiation up to a dose of 17.8 kGy at the dose rate of 300 Gy/min. According to the experimental data and analysis results, the lowest Bragg wavelength shift (18 pm) was obtained by a grating written in photosensitive fiber without $H_2$-loading.

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Holographic Recording Versus Holographic Lithography

  • Seungwoo Lee
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.7 no.6
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    • pp.638-654
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    • 2023
  • Holography is generally known as a technology that records and reconstructs 3D images by simultaneously capturing the intensity and phase information of light. Two or more interfering beams and illumination of this interference pattern onto a photosensitive recording medium allow us to control both the intensity and phase of light. Holography has found widespread applications not only in 3D imaging but also in manufacturing. In fact, it has been commonly used in semiconductor manufacturing, where interference light patterns are applied to photolithography, effectively reducing the half-pitch and period of line patterns, and enhancing the resolution of lithography. Moreover, holography can be used for the manufacturing of 3D regular structures (3D photonic crystals), not just surface patterns such as 1D or 2D gratings, and this can be broadly divided into (i) holographic recording and (ii) holographic lithography. In this review, we conceptually contrast two seemingly similar but fundamentally different manufacturing methods: holographic recording and holographic lithography. We comprehensively describe the differences in the manufacturing processes and the resulting structural features, as well as elucidate the distinctions in the diffractive optical properties that can be derived from them. Lastly, we aim to summarize the unique perspectives through which each method can appear distinct, with the intention of sharing information about this field with both experts and non-experts alike.

Fabrication of tunable all-fiber feedback laser and its application (파장가변이 가능한 완전 광섬유형 궤환 레이저 구현 및 응용)

  • Sohn, Kyung-Rak
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.33 no.8
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    • pp.1220-1225
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a tunable fiber feedback laser based on the use of Sagnac loop filter and fiber Bragg grating (FBG) is proposed. The Sagnac loop filter using a high birefringence fiber provides precise 0.33-nm channel spacing as a multi-wavelength grid filter. Ni-Cr wire wound on the FBG is useful to induce the thermo-optic effect of the fiber. Two types of FBG structures, which have a different length of wire, are demonstrated to show the wavelength shift and separation. To tune FBG by resistant heat, some current is supplied into the wire. When the wavelength matched with one of the cavity modes of Sagnac loop filter, the mode-locked lasing is occurred. The electrical power sensitivity of the resonant wavelength is measured to 1.75pm/mW. This laser configuration can be applied the electrical power system for monitoring the power fluctuation.