• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.90-94
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• 2012

Recently, injection molding process became more popular than ever to produce large quantities of high precision products. Extensive studies have been conducted for reducing the residual stresses and birefringence in injection-molded optical products. Flow-induced and thermally-induced stresses and birefringence have been found as two main sources during injection molding process. Generally, quantitative value of birefringence can be measured with polarizing microscope using the compensator. However, it is difficult to measure low order retardation with microscope, so developing a measurement system for low order optical path difference is in need. In the present paper, a system using Photo Elastic Modulator (PEM) is demonstrated to measure low phase retardation in injection-molded products.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.239-246
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• 2017

A compact plasmonic switching scheme, based on the phase change of a thin-film chalcogenide material ($Ge_2Sb_2Te_5$), is proposed and numerically investigated at optical-communication wavelengths. Surface plasmon polariton modal analysis is conducted for various thicknesses of dielectric and phase-change material layers, and the optimized condition is induced by finding the region of interest that shows a high extinction ratio of surface plasmon polariton modes before and after the phase transition. Full electromagnetic simulations show that multiple reflections inside the active region may conditionally increase the overall efficiency of the on/off ratio at a specific length of the active region. However, it is shown that the optimized geometrical condition, which shows generally large on/off ratio for any length of active region, can be distinguished by observing the multiple-reflection characteristic inside the active region. The proposed scheme shows an on/off switching ratio greater than 30 dB for a length of a few micrometers, which can be potentially applied to integrated active plasmonic systems.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.148-149
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• 2000

파장분할다중(WDM) 광통신시스템에서 광원의 파장을 정확하게 측정하는 것은 매우 중요하다. 지금까지 광파장측정기는 격자나 Fabry-Perot 에탈론을 사용한 광대역 필터(optical bandpass filter) 및 파장에 따라 삽입손실이 다른 파장판별기(wavelength discriminator)등으로 구현되었지만 빛의 간섭 현상을 이용한 마이켈슨 간섭계가 가장 많이 사용되었다. 특히 푸리에 변환 마이켈슨 간섭계 파장측정기$^{(1)}$ 는 동시에 각각 다른 파장의 광원들이 입사되더라도 각각의 파장을 측정할 수 있는 장점이 있다. 즉 마이켈슨 간섭계에서 주기적인 간섭무늬에 의한 광검출기의 출력은 입력된 광파장에 따라 다른 주기를 가진다. 따라서 서로 다른 파장을 가진 빛이 입사했을 때 검출되는 각각의 광전력의 합을 표본화(sampling)한 뒤 FFT를 거치면 광파장과 광검출기로 수신한 신호의 중심 주파수의 관계를 알 수 있으므로, 서로 다른 파장을 가진 빛이 입사하더라도 각각의 파장을 측정할 수 있는 것이다. 본 논문에서는 푸리에 변환을 이용하되 마이켈슨 간섭계 대신 마하젠더 간섭계형 광변조기를 이용하여 광파장을 측정에 관한 실험적 구현과 개선 방안에 대해 제시한다. (중략)

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.131-134
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• 2003

We demonstrated an optical frequency synthesizer based on a femtosecond (fs) mode-locked Ti:sapphire (Ti:s) laser by simultaneously stabilizing the carrier-offset frequency, $f_{ceo}$, and repetition rate, $f_{ rep}$, referenced to the Cs atomic frequency standard. By using two wide-band digital phase-detectors we realized a phase-coherent link between $f_{rep} and f_{ceo} with the relation f_{ceo} = f_{AOM} 5/6f_{rep} ≡ 0, where f_{AOM} = 5/6f_{rep}$ is the phase-locked driving frequency of an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) in a self-referencing interferometer and $f_{rep}$ = 100 MHz. As a result, we could stabilize all components of the fs laser comb at once with an equal frequency separation $f_{rep}$ = 100 MHz with $f_{ceo}$ = 0. In our optical frequency synthesizer, the frequency of the nth component ($f_{n}$) is given exactly by the simple relation $f_n = nf_{rep}$, enabling us to use the fs laser comb as a frequency ruler in the optical frequency metrology.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.443-450
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• 1995

A directional coupler which on the X-cut $LiNbO_3$ substrate is fabricated by using proton exchange method and self-aligned method. After proton exchange process, the waveguide is formed by annealing process. The relation ship between refractive index change of waveguide and maximum output was studied along with the annealing time. A self-aligned method was used to simplify the fabrication process of the waveguide and to maximize the efficiency of electric field. The on-off state of modulator has been observered with the switching of the directional coupler by the electric field effect and also the switching voltage of the directional coupler has been measured with 8.0 [V].

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.26 no.10
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• pp.1584-1590
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• 1989

In this study, a planar waveguide has been fabricated on a Y-cut LiNbO3 substrate by the Ti indiffusion technique and its guiding characteristics are measured by bright M-line spectroscopy. Using the photolithography method, an electro-optic grating modulator with interdigital electrodes has been fabricated by depositing Al on the Ti:LiNbO3 planar waveguide. And the beam intensity diffracted by the grating is measured as the applied voltage is increased.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.54 no.6
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• pp.293-297
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• 2005

Linearity is an important property of optical devices for analog communications. In this paper, we study the 3rd-order interrnodulation distortion (IMD3) of an Inp/InGaAsP multiple-quantum-well (MQW) traveling-wave type electroabsorption modulator (TW-EAM). We observe abnormal notches in the IMD3 results those were different from notches by general transfer curve of electroabsorption modulators (EAMs). We analyze the phenomena through absorption coefficients according to wavelengths and bias voltages to verify appearance of the abnormal notchs, where it can be known to result from Stark-shift and broadening. We propose the method to enhance linearity of MQW-EAMs by using these effects.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.51-58
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• 1996

This report describes thick traveling-wave electrode formation and microwave transmission characteristics of the fabricated electrodes. Effective refractive indices of the microwave in the 5 micron CPW type traveling-wave electrodes is around 2.45 according to the results of time domain S parameter measurements. The bandwidth of the electrodes is about 10 GHz and could be extended to 15 GHz through optimization of the process. The developed process technique that enables plating of micropatterns upto 20 micron can be applied to broadband optical intensity modulators.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.58-64
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• 1990

The flow direction in a glass tube is measured by using a forward scattering dual beam laser Doppler velo$.$ cimeter with an acousto-optic modulator. We can determine the flow direction by measuring the shifted Doppler frequency which is dependent on the order of modulation of the laser beam and the fluid flow direction. Also. an electronic amplification circuit which has a bandwidth of 0 . 300 MHz and a gain of 38 dB is designed and fabricated to amplify the high frequency signal.signal.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.249-254
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• 2015

In this paper we propose a binocular holographic three-dimensional (3D) imaging system using optical scanning holography. To realize a binocular 3D holographic imaging system, we could acquire the complex holograms of a real object after designing a holographic display system based on interpupillary distance and pupil size, and these holograms could be optically reconstructed following numerical signal processing with an amplitude spatial light modulator. The proposed binocular 3D holographic imaging system using optical scanning holography was verified experimentally.