• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.657-662
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• 2014

We demonstrate a simulation of a parallel hybrid fiber amplifier in the C+L-band with a gain controlling technique. A variable optical coupler is used to control the input signal power for both EDFA and RFA branches. The gain spectra of the C+L-band are flattened by optimizing the coupling ratio of the input signal power. In order to enhance the pump conversion efficiency, the EDFA branch was pumped by the residual Raman pump power. A gain bandwidth of 60 nm from 1530 nm to 1590 nm is obtained with large input signal power less than -5 dBm. The gain variation is about 1.06 dB at a small input signal power of -30 dBm, and it is reduced to 0.77 dB at the large input signal power of -5 dBm. The experimental results show close agreement with the simulation results.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.270-281
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• 2022

Based on the transfer-matrix method (TMM), we report the characteristics of the interface states in one-dimensional (1D) composite structures consisting of two photonic crystals (PCs) composed of binary dielectrics A and B, with unit-cell configurations ABA (PC I) and BAB (PC II). The dependence of the interface states on the number of unit cells N and the boundary factor x are displayed. It is verified that the interface states are independent of N when the PC has inversion symmetry (x = 0.5). Besides, the composite structures support the formation of interface states independent of the PC symmetry, except that the positions of the interface states will be varied within the photonic band gaps. Moreover, the robustness of the interface states against nonuniformities is investigated by adding Gaussian noise to the layer thickness. In the case of inversion symmetry (x = 0.5) the most robust interface states are achieved, while for the other cases (x ≠ 0.5) interface states decay linearly with position inside the band gap. This work could shed light on the development of robust photonic devices.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.117-123
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• 2015

Cholesteric liquid crystals are one dimensional photonic band-gap materials due to their birefringence and periodic structure. Dye doped cholesteric liquid crystals are self-assembling, mirror-less, low threshold laser structures that exhibit distributed feedback. In this review paper, we have presented the development in the field of lasing characteristics of dye doped cholesteric liquid crystals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2010.08a
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• pp.279-279
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• 2010

Smart gels have recently associated with photonic crystals to form photonic gels. Since these photonic gels are capable of reversibly converting the volume change of gels induced in response to external chemical or electric stimuli into characteristic optical signals, they have been considered not only as a good platform for label-free chemical or biological detection, actuators or optical switches but also as a good model system to investigate gel swelling behaviour. Recently, we reported block copolymer photonic gels self-assembled from polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) block copolymers, and demonstrated that selective swelling of lamellar structure allows extremely large tunability of the photonic stop band from UV region to IR region ($\lambda$ peak=350~1,600 nm). Herein we report block copolymer photonic gels which exhibit strong tunable optical hysteresis and their applications. As nonlinear responses in swelling of hydrogels were often observed, photonic gels exhibit optical hysteresis with change of external pH. We demonstrate such optical hysteresis can be precisely programmed by controlling ion-pairing affinity. We anticipate that photonic gels with carefully tunned optical hysteresis are applicable to optical memory devices.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.24-25
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• 2001

광 밴드 갭(photonic band gap)을 가지는 광 결정(photonic crystal)을 이용하여 만들어진 미세 공진기(micro-resonator)를 통해 상온 연속 동작하는 레이저가 최근 개발되었다. 이 미세 공진기는 이득매질(gain medium)이 성장된 반도체의 기판방향과 기판에 수직한 방향을 각각 이차원 광 결정과 판 도파로(slab waveguide) 구조의 전반사를 이용하여 제한하는 구조이다 이러한 광 밴드 갭 공진기의 공진 모드는 그 동안 계산적인 방법을 통해 이론적으로 연구되어 왔으며, 직접 모드의 특성을 측정하는 실험의 필요성이 크게 대두되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 광 밴드 갭에 의해 형성된 2차원 미세 공진기내에서 레이저 발진된 모드의 특성을 먼장 영역(far-field regime)에서 측정 분석한 결과를 보고한다. (중략)

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.2 no.6
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• pp.563-567
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• 2018

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a simple tunable photonic microwave band-pass filter with high resolution using a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) and an optical time-delay line. The RSOA is used as a gain medium for generating cross-gain modulation (XGM) effect as well as an optical source. The optical source provides narrow spectral width by self-injection locking the RSOA in conjunction with a partial reflection filter with specific center wavelength. Then, when the RSOA is operated in the saturation region and the modulated recursive signal is injected into the RSOA, the recursive signal is inversely copied to the injection locked optical source due to the XGM effect. Also, the tunability of the passband of the proposed microwave filter is shown by controlling an optical time-delay line in a recursive loop.

• Current Photovoltaic Research
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.43-46
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• 2017

Large absorption band shift has been observed for the azo-dye (disperse red-13, DR-13) attached on the surface of silica spheres. Urethane linkage has been utilized to form covalent bond between azo-dye (-OH) and 3-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane (ICPTES, -N=C=O). The synthesized ICPTES-DR-13 (ICPDR) molecules were attached to the silica spheres by the hydrolysis and condensation reaction. Although the absorption peak of DR-13 in methanol is at 510 nm, the absorption peak of the ICPDR-silica spheres shifts to 788 nm. The large absorption peak shift is due to the formation of intramolecular charge-transfer band with large aggregated ICPDR.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.13-19
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• 2004

This paper demonstrates the detailed study of a microstrip Yagi-Uda antenna with and without PBG structure at wireless LAN(5725∼5825 MHz) frequency band. The impedance bandwidth of the antenna with the PBG holes is greater than (about 30 MHz) that of its counter part without PBG holes. The measured gains of the antenna at the frequency band are 7 dB and 6 dB respectively for antenna with and without PBG. The improvement of gain of about 1 dB is likely due to the suppression of surface wave.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.16-17
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• 2001

광결정(photonic crystal)은 서로 다른 유전체가 규칙적으로 배열되어 있는 구조로서, 빛이 진행할 수 없는 진동수 영역인 광밴드갭(photonic bandgap)이 존재한다. 광밴드갭 특성으로 빛의 자발 방출과 진행 방향이 조절될 수 있기 때문에, 광결정은 나노 레이저, 광도파관, LED(Light Emitting Diode) 등의 광소자 개발에 응용되고 있다. 지금까지 2차원, 3차원의 광결정에 대한 많은 연구가 수행되어 왔으며, 현재에는 2차원의 슬랩(slab) 구조에 대해 활발하게 연구되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.380-383
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 20㎓~50㎓ 대역에서 2 차원 PBG(Photonic-Bandgap) 구조의 투과 특성을 RCWA(Rigorous coupled-wave analysis)방법에 의한 Transfer matrix로 해석하였다. Square lattice의 PBG 구조에 대하여 TE 편파에서 유전율의 변화와 결함(defect)의 유무에 대한 투과 특성을 고찰하였다.