• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2002

A focusing grating coupler (FGC) was not fabricated by the 'Continuous Path Control'writing strategy but by an electron-beam lithography system of more general exposure mode, which matches not only the address grid with the grating period but also an integer multiple of the address grid resolution (5 nm). To more simplify the fabrication, we are able to reduce a process step without large decrease of pattern quality by excluding a conducting material or layer such as metal (Al, Cr, Au), which are deposited on top or bottom of an e-beam resist to prevent charge build-up during e-beam exposure. A grating pitch period and an aperture feature size of the FGC designed and fabricated by e-beam lithography and reactive ion etching were ranged over 384.3 nm to 448.2 nm, and 0.5 $\times$ 0.5 mm$^2$area, respectively. This fabrication method presented will reduce processing time and improve the grating quality by means of a consideration of the address grid resolution, grating direction, pitch size and shapes when exposing. Here our investigations concentrate on the design and efficient fabrication results of the FGC for coupling from slab waveguide to a spot in free space.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.169-173
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• 1997

Most conventional lithography systems have been oriented to fabricate electronic devices. Therefore, it is not so easy to fabricate large aspect ratios of waveguide patterns with those systems. When considering costs and efficiencies, a laser lithography system provides number of benefit in realizing waveguide patterns. However, because the conventional laser lithography system could make only positive tone masks, it is inconvenient in determining the direction of the waveguide. A simple and reliable technique to produce negative tone masks was developed by using the laser beam writing. This technique was not sensitive to environmental situations such as dust, vibration, intensity variation. Making use of the technique a variety of device patterns such as Y-branch, directional coupler, and highly smooth S-shape bend could be successfully fabricated with a good contrast.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.6
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• pp.61-70
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• 1999

An optical switch composed of three-identical, equally-spaced $Ti:LinbO_3$ waveguides and overlaid Al electrodes of CPW structure was designed and fabricated. Patterned Ti was diffused into z-cut $LinbO_3$ substrates at $1025^{\circ}C$ for 6 hours to make a three-waveguide directional coupler. $SiO_2$ buffer layer of $1.2{\mu}m$ was grown by the PECVD to reduce the propagation loss of TM mode, and Al electrodes were built on the layer for switching the guided beam. For an incident beam of ${\lambda}=1.3{\mu}m$, almost perfect optical coupling between two outer waveguides was observed. When an electric field was applied to detune the three waveguides anti-symmetrically, the optical switching phenomenon was successfully confirmed.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.15-21
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• 2000

Optical fiber temperature sensor, using resonance wavelength shifting of single mode fiber-to-planar waveguide coupler by heat, was fabricated. Thermo-optic polymers, have large change of refractive index due to heat, were used for planar waveguide. The device fabrication procedure including fiber polishing steps was illustrated and the device structure with independent polarization was demonstrated experimentally. The resonance wavelength difference of fabricated device was less than 2nm. The resonance wavelength shifting owing to temperature variation, from room temperature($24^{\circ}C$) to $90^{\circ}C$, was showed $-0.54nm/^{\circ}C$, $-3nm/^{\circ}C$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.76-76
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• 2008

The resonance properties due to the surface plasmon(SP) excitation of metal nanoparticles make the nanocomposite films promising for various applications such as optical switching devices. In spite of the well-known ultra-sensitive operation of optical switches based on a guided wave, the application of nanocomposite film(NC) has inherent limitation originating from the excessive optical loss related with the surface plasmon resonance(SPR). In this study, we addressed this problem and present the experimental and theoretical analysis on the pump-probe optical switching in prism-coupled Au(1 vol.%):$SiO_2$ nanocomposite waveguide film. The guided mode was successfully generated using a near infrared probe beam of 1550 nm and modulated with an external pump beam of 532 nm close to the SPR wavelength. We extend our approach to ultra-fast operation using a pulsed laser with 5 ns pulse width. To improve the switching speed through the reduction in thermal loading effect accompanied by the resonant absorption of pump beam light, we adopted a metallic film as a coupling layer instead of low-index dielectric layer between the high-index SF10 prism and NC slab waveguide. We observed great enhancement in switching speed for the case of using metallic coupling layer, and founded a distinct difference in origin of optical nonlinearities induced during switching operation using cw and ns laser.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.35-42
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• 2021

The research of amplifier have been actively conducted to replace the Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA) in the mmWave. For Solid State Power Amplifiers (SSPA), which combine semiconductor-type devices to obtain high output, Low-loss, high-efficiency combination techniques are required to meet the required output as the output of a single relatively low device is relatively low. In this paper, we design and produce an 8-way waveguide combiner and a reflective loss of more than 20dB and a binding efficiency of 85% or more were identified. Field analysis calculates the critical power inside the combiner. It secured stable Power Ratings and built-in coupler for power monitoring to achieve miniaturization and light weight.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.186-187
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• 2002

광통신의 최종 목적은 각 가정까지 광섬유를 연결하여 일반인들도 많은 정보를 신속하고 쉽게 접할 수 있게 하는 것, 즉, 광가입자망(Fiber To The Home, FTTH)의 실현이라고 할 수 있다. 그러나 여러 가지 문제점으로 인해 아직까지는 일부 실험 지역 내에 국한되어 있다. 광가입자망의 실현을 위한 이론적 방법으로 광섬유를 정보 전달소에서 각 가정까지 직접 연결하는 것이 있으나, 이 방법은 경제적 면에서 경쟁력을 갖출 수 없을 뿐 아니라 물리적인 부피 증가로 인해 현실적으로 실현 불가능하다고 할 수 있다. (중략)

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.739-745
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• 2014

We have demonstrated a $Ti:LiNbO_3$ electro-optic electric-field sensor utilizing a $1{\times}2$ Y-fed balanced-bridge Mach-Zehnder interferometric (YBB-MZI) modulator, which uses a 3-dB directional coupler at the output and has two complementary output waveguides. A dc switching voltage of ~25 V and an extinction ratio of ~12.5 dB are observed at a wavelength of $1.3{\mu}m$. For a 20 dBm rf input power, the minimum detectable electric fields are ~8.21, 7.24, and ~13.3 V/m, corresponding to dynamic ranges of ~10, ~12, and ~7 dB at frequencies of 10, 30, and 50 MHz respectively. The sensors exhibit almost linear response for an applied electric-field intensity from 0.29 V/m to 29.8 V/m.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.100-101
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• 2000

편광기는 광변조기나 스위치 등과 같이 구동을 위해 하나의 편광성분을 요구하는 소자를 동작시킬 때 필수적으로 요구되는 소자이다. 편광기를 구현하는 기법에 따라 벌크형, 집적광학형 그리고 광섬유형으로 구분할 수 있다. 광섬유형은 광섬유를 절단하지 않고 제작이 가능하여 삽입손실이 작고 높은 기계적 신뢰성을 가진다. 측면 연마된 광섬유(side-polished fiber)위에 복굴절 크리스탈$^{(1)}$ , 액정크리스탈$^{(2)}$ , 금속막$^{(3)}$ , 그리고 복굴절을 가지는 평면도파로$^{(4)}$ 를 결합한 구조가 잘 알려져 있다. 특히 광섬유-평면도파로 결합 구조는 원하는 파장에서 TE혹은 TM 편광성분을 선택적으로 제거할 수 있고 평면도파로 물질선택이 용이한 구조이기 때문에 많은 주목을 받아 왔다. 하지만 지금 까지 알려진 광섬유-평면도파로 결합기를 이용한 편광기는 편광선택 작용이 발생하는 파장범위가 좁아 범용적으로 사용하는데 적합하지 않는 점이 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.656-658
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• 1997

AWG designed in this paper is considered with flat passband characteristics in the channel as a method for solving frequency stability problems of the sources in the conventional optical filters. This device can acquire the flat passband characteristics by inserting the multimode wave guides utilizing the self imaging effec between input wave guides and first star coupler. BPM simulation results show that the excess loss is smaller than 6.5 dB, the crosstalk is less than -22 dB and the 1 dB passband is about 50 GHz in the central channel.