• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.90-95
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• 2004

The structure of Ti:LiNbO$_3$optical waveguide with a mode size far different from that of single mode optical fiber has been optimized by tapering the waveguide ends. This work was focused on determining the optimized sets of parameters for the fabrication of low-loss Ti indiffused optical waveguides in LiNbO$_3$. Numerical and analytical modeling were applied to simulate the guiding quality and to determine the mode sizes. Based on these modeling results, new waveguide structures with tapered ends have been defined, fabricated and characterized in the respect of the coupling of fiber to Ti-indiffused LiNbO$_3$waveguide.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2005

Using tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses, we produce an optical waveguide and optical devices in transparent materials. This technique has the potential to generate not only channel waveguides, but also three-dimensional optical devices. In this paper, an optical splitter and U-grooves, which are used for fiber alignment, are simultaneously fabricated in a fused silica glass using near-IR femtosecond laser pulses. The fiber aligned optical splitter has a low insertion loss, less than 4㏈, including an intrinsic splitting loss of 3㏈ and excess loss due to the passive alignment of a single-mode fiber. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of the femtosecond laser writing technique by fabricating gratings at the surface and inside the silica glass.

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.259-264
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• 1996

In this study, we performed a modeling for $K^{+}$ ion-exchanged diffused channel waveguide and waveguide-type optical coupler by Wentzel-Kramer-Brillouin(WKB) dispersion equation, normalized field distribution equation for mode and coupled mode theory, and examined the optical-power-dividing of the optical coupler fabricated by using the modeling condition. The optical-power-dividing was observed at the waveguide-type optical coupler with 3[.mu.m] line-width, 6[.mu.m] space between channel waveguides, and 3[mm] interaction length.h.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.17-32
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• 1982

Wave propagation in gyrotropic or anisotropic medium is analyzed in terms of the eigenmodes of the medium, which are admixture of TE and TM waves. The field composition and the phase velocity of the modes are also determined. The results of the analysis are applied to thin film optical waveguide using such medium as substrate and/or film. Based on the characteristic equations for phase constants of the waveguide, the condition for TE-TM mode convection is derived, and wave propagation in the guide is represented in the form of Jones matrix, which allows a new interpretation in the conversion efficiency of the thin-film optical waveguides.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.172-179
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• 2020

We studied an integrated-optic biosensor configuration that operates at a wavelength of 0.63 ㎛ based on the evanescent-wave and two horizontal mode power coupling of Si₃N₄ rib-optical waveguides formed on a Si/SiO₂/Si₃N₄/SiO₂ multilayer thin films. The sensor consists of a single-mode input waveguide, followed by a two-mode section which acts as the sensing region, and a Y-branch output for separating the two output waveguides. The coupling between the two propagating modes in the sensing region produces a periodically repeated optical power exchanges along the propagation. A light power was steered from one output channel to the other due to the change in the cladding layer (bio-material) refractive index, which affected the effective refractive index (phase-shift) of two modes through evanescent-wave. Waveguide analyses based on the rib optical waveguide dimensions were performed using various numerical computational software. Sensitivity values of 12~23 and 65~165 au/RIU, respectively for the width and length of 4 ㎛, and 3841.46 and 26250 ㎛ of the two-mode region corresponding to the refractive index range 1.36~1.43 and 1.398~1.41, respectively, were obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 1998.05a
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• pp.160-161
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• 1998

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1990.02a
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• pp.264-268
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• 1990

A guided-wave electro-optic Mach-Zehnder interferometric modulator was fabricated on X-cut LiNbO3 . The channel waveguides were formed by proton diffusion with self-aligned SiO2-cladding. A mach-Zehnder interferometric modulator with arm lengths of 7mm has been fabricated and tested at 0.6328${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$. Its modulation depth with V$\pi$ of only 3.5V was 85% and the 3dB bandwidth was 1.6KHz. For high speed operation, the electrode dimension should be reduced to have smaller R, L, and C.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.8-9
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• 2002

고분자 광도파로소자 기술은 광통신에 사용되는 광도파로소자들을 고분자를 이용하여 구현하는 기술로써, 실리카에 비하여 제조장비가 간소하기 때문에 제조단가를 줄일 수 있으며, 열광학효과가 10배정도 크기 때문에 동작전력을 1/10 이하로 줄일 수 있고, 소자제작공정이 40$0^{\circ}C$ 이하에서 이루어지기 때문에 다른 소자와의 집적이 유리한 점 등 다양한 장점이 있다. 또한 실리카와 달리 고분자는 실리콘뿐만 아니라 다양한 고분자 기판을 사용할 수 있기 때문에 고분자 기판의 열팽창계수와 도파로물질의 열광학계수를 잘 조합하면 온도의 변화에 따른 파장변화와 편광의존성을 근본적으로 해결할 수 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.164-165
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• 2002

광자결정 광섬유(photonic crystal fiber)는 주기적으로 배열된 공기기둥이 광섬유의 길이 방향으로 정렬되어 일반광섬유의 크래팅의 역할을 하고 있고 코어는 이들 공기구멍의 중심부에 인위적인 결함을 만들어 광도파가 가능하게 된다 이러한 광자결정 광섬유의 광학적 특성은 넓은 영역에 걸친 단일 모드 특성, 특이한 모드분산 강한 비선형 등의 기존의 광섬유와는 다른 광특성이 보고되고 있으며 테라 헐즈 펄스 도파가 보고되는 등 그 응용 영역을 넓히고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.03a
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• pp.55-55
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• 2003

Recently, with the rapid development of the waveguide division multiplexing (WDM) systems for large capacity and flexibility of information network, the broad band 1.5$\mu\textrm{m}$ erbium-doped waveguide amplifier (EDWA) become important. The main factors affecting the performance of sol-gel-based waveguides are non-radiative relaxation channels due to rare-earth concentration quenching and to vibration of the OH groups Therefore, the sol-gel process has to be carefully controlled in order to minimize the residual OH content.