• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제30권10호
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• pp.1017-1022
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• 2013

Currently, various optical fiber tips are used to deliver laser beam for endoscopic surgery. In this paper, we demonstrated multidirectional (forward and side) firing optical fiber tip using a femtosecond micromachining and $CO_2$ laser polishing technology. We controlled the edge width of optical fiber tip, by modulating the condition of $CO_2$ laser, to regulate the amount of side and forward emission. The distal end of the optical fiber with core/clad diameter of $400/440{\mu}m$ was microstructured with cone shape by using a femtosecond laser. And then the microstructured optical fiber tip was polished by $CO_2$ laser beam result in smoothing and specular reflection at the surface of the cone structure. Finally, we operated the LightTools simulation and good agreement was generally found between the proposed model and experimental simulation.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.33-36
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• 2009

Laser ablation with femtosecond lasers is highly promising for microfabrication of materials. Also, the high peak power of femtosecond lasers could induce a multiphoton absorption to ablate transparent materials. Similar results have also been were obtained in the case of optical fibers. In this paper, we present our experimental results of femtosecond laser microstructuring of optical fiber and its applications to microelectronic components and fiber optic devices. Finally, we directly produced micro holes with femtosecond laser pulses in a single step by moving an optical fiber in a preprogrammed structure. When water was introduced into a hole drilled from the bottom surface of the optical fiber, the effects of blocking and redeposition of ablated material were greatly reduced and the aspect ratio of the depth of the hole was increased. We have presented circular and rectangular-shaped holes in optical fiber.

• 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.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.146-151
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• 2009

A Gaussian beam of single mode fiber laser was changed into a ring-shaped pattern after it was transmitted through the hollow optical fiber. The ring-shaped beam was focused on a plane by an f-. lens and it was scanned by a Galvano-mirror. The spatial profile of laser energy incident on a plane had two peaks at both sides of the scanned linear track. The profile was compared with the result obtained when the Gaussian beam was dithered transversely by an acousto-optic modulator. It is found that hollow optical fiber beam shaper can replace acousto-optic beam dithering device which is employed in a laser induced thermal printing system.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.316-320
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• 2009

A novel broadband wavelength-swept Raman laser was used to implement Fourier-domain mode locked (FDML) swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Instead of a conventional semiconductor optical amplifier, this study used broadband optical fiber Raman amplification, over 50 nm centered around 1545 nm, using a multi-wavelength optical pumping scheme, which was implemented with the four laser diodes at the center wavelengths of 1425, 1435, 1455 and 1465 nm, respectively, and the maximum operating power of 150 mW each. The operating swept frequency of the laser was determined to 16.7 kHz from the FDML condition of 12 km optical fiber in the ring cavity. The OCT images were obtained using the novel broadband wavelengthswept Raman laser source.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.200-206
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 직경 $125{\mu}m$의 싱글모드 광섬유에 입사된 빔을 다방향으로 방사하기 위하여 이론적으로 계산된 값을 광학설계 프로그램인 LightTools를 이용하여 광섬유 끝단에 원뿔형 구조물을 모델링 하고 입사된 모든 빔이 전반사 되어 측면으로 방사되는 광섬유 팁과, 전방과 측면으로 동시에 방사가 가능한 광섬유 팁에 대해 시뮬레이션을 하였다. 이러한 결과를 가지고 광섬유 끝단에 펨토초 레이저와 $CO_2$ 레이저를 이용하여 원뿔형 구조물을 제작하고 시뮬레이션 결과와 비교 분석하는 연구를 수행하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.22-26
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• 1979

LED나 laser diode와 optical fiber의 coupling efficiency를 높이기 위해서는 lens의 곡율반경을 작게 하는 것이 효과적이다. 본 연구에서는 heating and pulling 반경에 의한 tapered lens를 고안함으로써 최적 size의 lens 제작을 용이하게 하였으며, taper의 특성을 이용하여 고효율 coupling을 가능하게 하였다. 이론적 계산에 의하여 90%까지의 light coupling이 가능함을 보였으며, 실험결과 flat end에 대한 improvement factor는 LED에서 3dB, laser diode에서 6dB까지 증가시킬 수 있었다. epoxy를 사용하여 LED에 pigital을 부착한 결과 온도특성 및 기계적 안정성에서 실용화에 충분할 정도로 우수하였다.

• 동력기계공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.5-10
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• 2015

Femtosecond laser machining has been applied for creating a sensor function in silica glass optical fibers. Femtosecond laser pulses make it possible to fabricate micro structures in processed regions of a very thin glass fiber line because femtosecond laser pulses can extremely minimize thermal effects. With the laser machining to optical fiber using a single shot of 210-fs laser at a wavelength of 800 nm, it was observed that a processed region surrounded a thin layer which seemed to be a hollow cavity monitored by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). This study aims at a theoretical investigation for the processed region by using a numerical analysis in order to embed sensing function to optical fibers. Numerical methods based finite element method (FEM) has been used for an optical waveguide modeling. This report suggests two types modeling and describes a comparative study on optical losses obtained by the experiment and the numerical analysis.

• 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.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.416-422
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• 2009

We have demonstrated a highly efficient cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser, generating $>$2.1 kW of continuous-wave output power at 1.1 μm with 74% slope efficiency with respect to launched pump power. The beam quality factor ($M^2$) was better than 1.2. The maximum output power was only limited by available pump power, showing no evidence of roll-over even at the highest output power. We present data on how the beam quality depends on the fiber parameter, based on our current and past fiber laser developments. We also discuss the ultimate power-capability of our fiber in terms of thermal management, Raman nonlinear scattering, and material damage, and estimate it to 10 kW.