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A Light Source for Heterodyne Interferomtry using Beat Frequency between Two-axial Modes of a He-Ne Laser (2-종모드 레이저의 비트 주파수를 이용한 헤테로다인 간섭계용 광원 개발)

  • 김민석;김승우
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2001.02a
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    • pp.92-93
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    • 2001
  • 주파수 안정화 레이저 광원은 10-6 이상의 상대 불확도가 필요한 간섭계에서 널리 쓰이고 있으며 특히 변위 측정 시스템에서는 반드시 쓰이고 있다. 상용화된 많은 변위 측정 시스템은 신호 대 잡음비가 우수하고 광학계의 정렬이 더 쉬운 헤테로다인 방식을 채택하고 있으며 이를 위해서 서로 수직 선형 편광인 다른 주파수의 광을 내보내는 광원이 필요하다. 현재 헤테로다인 변위 측정 시스템에 쓰이고 있는 광원은 이중 주파수 광원을 만드는 방식에 따라 지만 효과(Zeeman effect)를 이용한 지만 레이저(HP사)와 음향-광 변조기(Acousto-optic modulator)를 이용한 이중 주파수 레이저(Zy해사)가 있다. (중략)

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Chaotic State of a C.W.$CO_2$ laser Modulated by a Low Frequency Modulator (낮은 주파수로 변조된 C.W .$CO_2$ 레이저 빛의 혼란상태)

  • 김칠민
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1989.02a
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    • pp.73-75
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    • 1989
  • Chaotic states of a low-frequency modulating C.W .Co2 laser beam is observed. The output behaviors appear quasi-periodicity and chaotic states when the laser beam is modulated from 100Hz to 1000Hz by using an intracavity chopper. And the output characteristics of the laser beam show a route to chaos as increasing input power when the modulation speed is 500Hz.

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Complex Conjugate Resolved Retinal Imaging by One-micrometer Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Using an Electro-optical Phase Modulator

  • Fabritius, Tapio E.J.;Makita, Shuichi;Yamanari, Masahiro;Myllyla, Risto A.;Yasuno, Yoshiaki
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.111-117
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    • 2011
  • Full-range spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) with a 1-${\mu}m$ band light source is shown here. The phase of the reference beam is continuously stepped while the probing beam scans the sample laterally (B-scan). The two dimensional spectral interferogram obtained is processed by a Fourier transform method to obtain a complex spectrum leading to a full-range OCT image. A detailed mathematical explanation of the complex conjugate resolving method utilized is provided. The system's measurement speed was 7.96 kHz, the measured axial resolution was $9.6{\mu}m$ in air and the maximum sensitivity 99.4 dB. To demonstrate the effect of mirror image elimination, In vivo human eye pathology was measured.

Laser Beam Shaping Using Hollow Optical Fiber and Its Application in Laser Induced Thermal Printing

  • Yi, Jong-Hoon;Lee, Kang-In;Park, Ill-Hyun;Kwon, Jin-Hyuk
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.1
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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.

All-optical Polarization Phase Modulation in Coupled Quantum Dots

  • Je, Ku Chul;Kyhm, Kwangseuk
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.60-64
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    • 2017
  • We have considered optical nonlinearities of coupled quantum dots theoretically, where an exciton dipole-dipole interaction is mediated between the adjacent large and small quantum dots. For increasing a pump pulse area in resonance with the large quantum dot exciton the induced nonlinear refractive index of the small quantum dot exciton has been obtained. As the exciton dipole-dipole interaction depends on the relative orientation of two exciton dipoles, the optical nonlinearities for the directions parallel and perpendicular to the coupling axis of the two quantum dots are compared. The directional imbalance of optical nonlinearities in coupled quantum dots can be utilized for a polarization phase modulator by controlling a pump pulse area and propagation length.

Nonlinearity Compensation of Electroabsorption Modulator by using Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (반도체 광증폭기를 이용한 전계흡수 광변조기 비선형성 보상)

  • Lee, Chang-Hyeon;Son, Seong-Il;Han, Sang-Guk
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2000
  • To compensate the nonlinearity of electroabsorption modulator(EAM) resulting from its near exponential transfer function, a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA) that has a log transfer function is used. Since the transfer function of SOA is inverse to that of EAM, the intermodulation distortion(IMD) of EAM can be reduced by cascading SOA to EAM. Also, the RF gain can be increased by the optical gain of SOA. For these reasons, spurious free dynamic range(SFDR) of EAM is enhanced by connecting SOA to EAM in series and operating in gain salutation region. To improve the nonlinearity compensation of EAM, the increased gain of SOA is required and the slope of gain saturation, the ratio of gain to input SOA power, needs to be steep. However, signal spontaneous beat noise that is the dominant system noise increases in proportion to the gain such that the SFDR of EAM is reduced. The higher the gain of SOA is, the more ASE is increased. Thus the noise level of system is increased and the following SFDR of EAM is decreased. The slope of gain saturation region and ASE of have trade-off relation and the optimization is achieved at 8㏈ optical gain. 9㏈ enhancement of SFDR of EAM is obtained. This scheme is easy to embody the linear EAM and the integration with three components (DFB-LD, EAM and SOA) offers many merits, such as low insertion loss, low chirping and low polarization sensitivity.

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A time delay measurement of a chirped fiber grating by using bidirectional modulation of an optical intensity modulator (광변조기의 양방향 변조를 이용한 chirped fiber grating의 시간지연 측정법)

  • Jeon, Geum-Soo;Lee, Yong-Gu;Ban, Jae-Kyung;Heo, Hyun
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.510-514
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    • 2002
  • A simple method for a time delay measurement of a chirped fiber grating by using bidirectional modulation of a Mach-Zehnder modulator has been proposed. The bidirectionally modulated light with time difference makes an interference fringe in the RF domain. The time delay of a chirped fiber grating can be obtained by measuring the period of the RF interference fringe for different wavelengths. We have measured the time delay of a chirped fiber grating with a chirped length of 5 cm and a bandwidth of 3.16 nm. The average slope of the time delay has been measured to be 183 ps/nm and its uncertainty has been less than $\pm$1.7%.

Implementation of Real Time Optical Associative Memory using LCTV (LCTV를 이용한 실시간 광 연상 메모리의 구현)

  • 정승우
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1990.02a
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    • pp.102-111
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    • 1990
  • In this thesis, an optical bidirectional inner-product associative memory model using liquid crystal television is proposed and analyzed theoretically and realized experimentally. The LCTV is used as a SLM(spatial light modulator), which is more practical than conventional SLMs, to produce image vector in terms of computer and CCD camera. Memory and input vectors are recorded into each LCTV through the video input connectors of it by using the image board. Two multi-focus hololenses are constructed in order to perform optical inner-product process. In forward process, the analog values of inner-products are measured by photodetectors and are converted to digital values which are enable to control the weighting values of the stored vectors by changing the gray levels of the pixels of the LCTV. In backward process, changed stored vectors are used to produce output image vector which is used again for input vector after thresholding. After some iterations, one of the stored vectors is retrieved which is most similar to input vector in other words, has the nearest hamming distance. The experimental results show that the proposed inner-product associative memory model can be realized optically and coincide well with the computer simulation.

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Single-Fiber Bidirectional Transmission System Using Base Station Without Light Sources (광원이 없는 Base Station을 이용한 단일 광섬유 양방향 전송 시스템)

  • 전금수;정용채;임명섭;반재경
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.28 no.5A
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    • pp.323-332
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    • 2003
  • We have proposed and implemented a novel cost-effective optical subcarrier mutiplexing transceiver for base station without light sources in which optical signal can be transmitted bidirectionally over a single optical fiber. Modulated optical signal is retransmitted from the base station to the central office using a ring-type base station which consists of a circulator and an Mach-Zehnder modulator, where the optical source is supplied from the central office. In order to investigate the feasibility of the proposed base station without light sources, we have measured adjacent channel power ratio and carrier to noise ratio by transmitting the IS-95 CDMA signal and 14 tones carrier signal bidirectionally through the system.

A Frequency Stable and Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator Using an Optical Phase Shifter and a Phase-shifted Fiber Bragg Grating

  • Wu, Zekun;Zhang, Jiahong;Wang, Yao
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.6 no.6
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    • pp.634-641
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    • 2022
  • A frequency stable and tunable optoelectronic oscillator (OEO) incorporating an optical phase shifter and a phase-shifted fiber Bragg grating (PS-FBG) is designed and analyzed. The frequency tunability of the OEO can be realized by using a tunable microwave photonic bandpass filter consisting of a PS-FBG, a phase modulator. The optical phase compensation loop is used to compensate for the phase variations of the RF signal from the OEO by adjusting an optical phase shifter. Simulation results demonstrate that the output RF signals of the OEO can be tuned in a frequency range of 118 MHz to 24.092 GHz. When the ambient temperature fluctuates within ±3.9 ℃, the frequency drifts of the output RF signals are less than 68 Hz, the side-mode suppression ratios are more than 69.39 dB, and the phase noise is less than -92.49 dBc/Hz at a 10 kHz offset frequency.