• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.91-92
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• 2007

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.246-247
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• 2000

Yb$^{3+}$ 이온은 InGaAs LD 및 Ti:sapphire 레이저로 펌핑할 수 있는 940 nm에서의 흡수대를 가지고 있고, 1.03 $mu extrm{m}$의 형광방출 특성을 가지고 있으며, 지금까지 알려진 1 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 파장대의 레이저 활성이온 중에서 가장 적게 열을 발생하는 특성을 가지고 있음이 알려져 최근에는 Yb$^{3+}$ 이온을 첨가한 여러 가지 레이저 매질이 연구되고 있다.[1] 그 중에서도 Yb$^{3+}$ ion doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Yb:YAG) 단결정은 충분하게 넓은 흡수선폭, 좋은 열광학적 특성, 고출력 작동을 하게 하는 stokes shift, 그리고 LD에 의한 펌핑을 가능하게 하는 940 nm 영역에서의 흡수 및 긴 여기시간을 가진 이상적인 매질로 알려져 있다.[2] 이러한 특성으로 인해 Yb:YAG 단결정은 femtosecond 레이저 등 각종 레이저 시스템의 소형화[3]를 가져왔으며, 레이저 결정의 양산 가능성 및 레이저 기기의 소형화에 따르는 시스템의 가격 감소가 가능하므로 Yb:YAG microchip 레이저는 향후 고출력 레이저 기기 산업의 중추가 될 것으로 기대된다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.339-344
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• 2011

The Ohmic contact of Ti/Au metals on n-type ZnO thin film deposited on c-plane sapphire substrates by pulsed laser deposition was investigated by TLM (transfer length method) patterns. The Ti/Au metal films with thickness of 35 nm and 90 nm were deposited by electron-beam evaporator and thermal evaporator, respectively. By using the photo-lithography method, the $100{\times}100{\mu}m^2$ TLM patterns with $6{\sim}61{\mu}m$ gaps were formed. To improve the electrical properties as well as to decrease an interface states and stress between metal and semiconductor, the post-annelaing process was done in oxygen ambient by rapid thermal annealing system at temperature of $100{\sim}500^{\circ}C$ for 1 min. In this study, it appeared that the minimum specific contact resistivity shows about $1.1{\times}10^{-4}{\Omega}{\cdot}cm^2$ in $300^{\circ}C$ annealed sample, which may be originated from formation of oxygen vacancies of ZnO during an oxidation of Ti metal at the interface of Ohmic contacts.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.75-80
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• 2006

We studied feasibility of three-dimensional optical memory by utilizing femtosecond laser-induced changes of transmission in photopolymers and photoluminescence in Eu and Sm ion doped sodium borate glasses. We produced transmission change by two photon absorption and obtained sub-Um size spots in photopolymers using 780 nm modelocked Ti-sapphire laser pulses. We also changed valence state of Eu and Sm ions by multi-photon absorption and achieved $\~{\mu}m$ sized spot formation in Sm-doped glasses.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.264-272
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• 2012

In this paper, we report THz generation and detection characteristics investigated by InGaAs semiconductor epilayers, as results of a basic study obtained from the InGaAs-based THz transmitter/receiver (Tx/Rx). High-temperature and low-temperature (LT) grown InGaAs epilayers were prepared by the molecular beam epitaxy technique for the characterization of THz generation and detection, respectively, and the surface emission based on the photo-Dember effect was tried for THz generation. THz wave was generated by irradiation of a Ti:Sapphire fs pulse laser (60 ps/83 MHz), and a LT-GaAs Rx was used for the THz detection. The frequency band shown in the spectral amplitudes Fourier-transformed from the measured current signals was ranging in 0.5~2 THz, and the signal currents were exponentially increased with the Tx beam power. The THz detection characteristics of LT-InGaAs were investigated by using an Rx with dipole (5/20 ${\mu}m$) antenna, and the cutoff frequency was ~2 THz.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.429-430
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• 2008

We demonstrate coherent x-ray diffraction imaging using table-top x-ray laser at a wavelength of 13.9nm driven by 10-Hz ti:Sapphire laser system at the Advanced Photonics Research Institute in Korea. Since the flux of x-ray photons reaches as high as $10^9$ photons/pulse in a $20{\times}20{\mu}m^2$ field of view, we measured a ingle-pulse diffraction pattern of a micrometer-scale object with high dynamic range of diffraction intensities and successfully reconstructed to the image using phase retrieval algorithm with an oversampling ratio of 1:6. the imaging resolution is $^{\sim}150$ nm, while that is much improved by stacking the many diffraction patterns. This demonstration can be extended to the biological sample with the diffraction limited resolution.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.61-67
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• 2011

The confocal laser scanning microscopy and two-photon microscopy was implemented based on a single laser source and an objective lens. We imaged and compared the morphology of identical sites of ex vivo human skin using both microscopes. The back-scattering emission from the sample provided the contrast for the confocal microscopy. The intrinsic autofluorescence and the second harmonic generation were used as the luminescence source for the two-photon microscopy. The wavelength of the Ti:Sapphire laser was tuned at 710 nm, which corresponds to the excitation peak of NADH and FAD in skin tissue. The various cell layers in the epidermis and the papillary dermis were clearly distinguished by both imaging modalities. The two-photon microscopy more clearly visualized the intercellular region and the nucleus of the cell compared to the confocal microscopy. The fibrous structures in the dermis were more clearly resolved by the confocal microscopy. Numerous cells in papillary dermal layer, as deep as $100\;{\mu}m$, were observed in both CLSM and two-photon microscopy. While most previous studies focused on fibrous structure imaging (collagen and elastin fiber) in the dermis, we demonstrated that the combined imaging with the CLSM and two-photon microscopy can be applied for the non-invasive study of the population, distribution and metabolism of papillary dermal cells in skin.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.379-380
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• 2006

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.47-51
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• 2009

The surface structure of polycrystalline Fe films of various thicknesses on glass substrates have been studied using a Ti: Sapphire laser at 780 nm. We found that the surface structure possesses C$_s$ crystal structure close to $C_{2v}$ through symmetry consideration. We present one-fold intensity profile with one mirror plane in second harmonic (SH) intensity as a proof of $C_s$ symmetry. $C_s$ and $C_{2v}$ surface symmetries usually appear at the (110) surface of a cubic diamond single crystal [1]. Therefore this surface symmetry would be related to bcc (110) growth orientation coinciding with XRD measurement. Further we treated surface normalized SH asymmetry with various thicknesses. The SH asymmetry increases with increasing of film thickness. From these results, it is observed that the surface structure of thin polycrystalline Fe film below 5 nm is almost isotropic, while in the case of the thicker Fe films, surface structure have $C_s$ symmetry structure close to $C_{2v}$.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.204-207
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• 2011

We developed a time-resolved magneto-optical Kerr effect microscope system to investigate ultrafast magnetization dynamics. Based on the pump-probe method, 0.1-ps time resolution was achieved by use of a fs Ti:Sapphire laser. The magnetization dynamics was then measured on Pt/Co/Pt thin films with various Co thicknesses. All the samples exhibited ultrafast demagnetization within a few ps by direct heating of pump laser. Some thicker samples showed precessional motion of magnetization, from which the Gilbert damping constant was determined based on the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert equation.