• 전자공학회논문지D
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• 제35D권8호
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• pp.69-75
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• 1998

We demonstrate wavelength conversion of 2.5Gb/s optical signals by four-wave mixing (FWM) in a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA). We investigate the effect of input pump and signal powers on the coversion efficiency, optical signal-to-noise ratio (OSNR) and extinction ratio to be a measure of performance in a wavelength converter. As a result, we show that the maximum bit error rate (BER) performance can be obtained by co promising among high-vonversion efficiency (minimum Pprobe), high-OSNR (maximum Pprobe) and low-cross-gain saturation effects (Pprobe kept at least 6dB weaker than Ppump). In our experiment, we obtain optimum performance at +3 dBm pump power and -6dBm signal power. The power penalty incurred in the wavelength conversion can be minimized by careful selection of the input pump and signal powers. We show that about 0.5dB power penalty for 3.2nm wavelength coversion at 10-10 BER is achievable.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.131-141
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• 2002

This paper considers a routing and wavelength assignment problem (RWAP) for the implementation of efficient Wavelength Division Multiplexing all-optical mesh networks without wavelength conversion. For a given physical network and required connections, the solution to the RWAP consists in how to select a suitable path and wavelength among the many possible choices for each connection so that no two paths using the same wavelength pass through the same link, while minimizing the number of required wavelengths. We introduce an integer programming formulation of the RWAP, which has an exponential number of variables, and propose an algorithm to solve it based on the column generation technique. The proposed algorithm can yield high quality solutions and tight lower bounds at the same time. Though the proposed algorithm cannot guarantee optimal solutions, computational results show that the algorithm yields provably good solutions within a reasonable time.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제38권8호
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• pp.43-53
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• 2001

파장변환 소자는 최근에 급격히 발전하는 광네트웍을 구축하기 위한 필수적인 소자로서 여러 가지 형태에 대한 연구개발이 진행되고 있다. 그 중에서도, 최근에는 광증폭기로 형성된 방향성 결합기 구조에서의 상호위상변조(XPM: Cross Phase Modulation)에 의한 파장변환에 대한 개념이 제안되고 가능성이 실험적으로 입증된 바 있다. 본 논문에서는 연산자 분리 방법을 적용하여 상술한 파장변환기를 해석하기에 적당하도록 시영역 동적 모델을 구현하고, 파장변환 특성을 여러 가지 면에서 분석하여 보았다. 모델링 결과는 다른 연구자의 실험 결과를 잘 설명할 수 있음을 보였으며, 실험에서 제세되지 않았던 신호공과 변환된 광파가 역방향으로 진행하는 경우의 파장변환 특성 등에 대해서도 이 파장변환기가 잘 동작함을 보였다. 주파수 처핑의 경우 광펄스의 시작과 끝점 모두에게 정처핑과 부처핑이 동시에 발생함을 보았다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.312-318
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• 2005

Mid-span spectral inversion (MSSI) has to utilize high optical pump power, for its operation principle is based on a nonlinear optical wavelength conversion. In this paper, a low pump-power operation of MSSI-based chromatic dispersion compensation (CDC) has been achieved successfully, for the first time to our knowledge, by introducing a noise pre-reduction scheme in cascaded wavelength conversions with periodically poled $LiNbO_3$ waveguides at a relatively low operation temperature. As preliminary studies, phase-matching properties and operation-temperature dependence of the wavelength converter (WC) were characterized. The WC pumped at 1549 nm exhibited a wide conversion bandwidth of 59 nm covering the entire C-band and a conversion efficiency of -23.6 dB at 11 dBm pump power. CDC experiments were implemented with 2.5 and 10 Gb/s transmission systems over 100 km single-mode fiber. Although it is well-known that the signal distortion due to chromatic dispersion is not critical at a 2.5 Gb/s transmission, the clear recovery of eye patterns was identified. At 10 Gb/s transmission experiments, eye patterns were retrieved distinctly from seriously distorted ones, and notable improvements in bit-error rates were acquired at a low pump power of 14 dBm.

• Advances in nano research
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.475-485
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• 2022

Crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells have advantages of zero pollution, large scale and high reliability. A major challenge is that sunlight wavelength with photon energy lower than semiconductor band gap is converted into heat and increase its temperature and reduce its conversion efficiency. Traditional cooling PV method is using water flowing below the modules to cool down PV temperature. In this paper, the idea is proposed to reduce the temperature of the module and improve the energy conversion efficiency of the module through the modulation of the solar spectrum. A spectrally selective nanofilm reflector located directly on the surface of PV is designed, which can reflect sunlight wavelength with low photon energy, and even enhance absorption of sunlight wavelength with high photon energy. The results indicate that nanofilm reflector can reduce spectral reflectivity integral from 9.0% to 6.93% in 400~1100 nm wavelength range, and improve spectral reflectivity integral from 23.1% to 78.34% in long wavelength range. The nanofilm reflector can reduce temperature of PV by 4.51℃ and relatively improved energy conversion efficiency of PV by 1.25% when solar irradiance is 1000 W/m². Furthermore, the nanofilm reflector is insensitive in sunlight's angle and polarization state, and be suitable for high irradiance environment.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.85-103
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• 2005

In this paper, we consider the routing and wavelength assignment problem in survivable WDM transport network without wavelength conversion. We assume the single-link failure and a path protection scheme in optical layer. When a physical network and a set of working paths are given, the problem is to select a link-disjoint protection path for each working path and assign a wavelength for each working and protection path. We give an integer programming formulation of the problem and propose an algorithm to solve it. Though the formulation has exponentially many variables, we solve the linear programming relaxation of it by using column generation technique. We devise a branch-and price algorithm to solve the column generation problem. After solving the linear programming relaxation, we apply a variable fixing procedure combined with the column generation to get an integral solution. We test the proposed algorithm on some randomly generated data and test results show that the algorithm gives very good solutions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.344-350
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• 2004

We propose a filter-free wavelength conversion using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer with monolithically integrated $2{\times}2$ multimode interference semiconductor optical amplifiers (MMI-SOAs). The device has been optimized by considering a non-homogeneous carrier distribution due to the self-imaging properties of the MMI-SOA. Static measurements show an extinction ratio of up to 18 dB and an input signal rejection ratio of up to 20 dB.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.294-300
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 반도체 광증폭기내에서 four-wave mixing을 발생시키는 spectral hole burning을 더욱 정확하게 해석하기 위하여 밀도행렬을 기존의 방법에 비하여 정확하게 푸는 방법에 대하여 설명하고 이러한 밀도행렬에 대한 수치해석을 실시하여 그 해를 구한다. 이렇게 구한 결과를 통해 반도체 광증폭기내에서의 four-wave mixing에 의한 파장변환을 설명하는 결합 파동 방정식을 유도하고 이것의 해를 구하여 반도체 광증촉기에서의 파장변환이 어떻게 발생하는 지를 설명하고 3차 섭동을 이용하여 계산된 기존의 결과와 비교한다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.509-514
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• 2003

SOA(Semiconductor Optical Amplifier)를 단일 기판에 집적한 Mach-Zehnder 간섭계 구조의 파장변환기를 제작하여 40 nm 지역폭에 대한 10 Gb/s 파장변환 특성을 조사하였다. 제작된 파장변환기는 BRS(Buried Ridge Structure)형 SOA와 수동 도파로를 butt-joint결합하여 단일 집적한 구조이다. 집적화 과정에서 높은 도파 손실을 발생시키는 p+ InP덮개층을 제거하고 무첨가 InP로 도파로 덮개층 및 전류 차단층을 동시에 형성시키는 새로운 방법을 이용하였고, 모듈 제작에서 경사진 도파로와 광섬유를 효율적으로 광 접속하기 위하여 경사진 광섬유 배열을 제작하여 사용하였다. 이와 같이 제작된 파장변환기 모듈을 이용하여 1535-1575 nm의 40 nm 대역폭에서 1 ㏈ 이하의 power penalty를 갖는 10 Gb/s 파장변환을 구현하였고, 특히 negative penalty를 갖는 파장변환을 성공적으로 구현함으로써 2R(re-amplification, re-shaping) 기능을 제공할 수 있음을 보였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.2743-2750
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• 2011

Lanthanide(III)-cored complex as a wavelength conversion material has been successfully designed and synthesized for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells, for the first time, since light with a short wavelength has not been effectively used for generating electric power owing to the limited absorption of these DSSCs in the UV region. A black dye (BD) was chosen and used as a sensitizer, because BD has a relatively weak light absorption at shorter wavelengths. The overall conversion efficiency of the BD/WCM device was remarkably increased, even with the relatively small amount of WCM added to the device. The enhancement in $V_{oc}$ by WCM, like DCA, could be correlated with the suppression of electron recombination between the injected electrons and $I_3{^-}$ ions. Furthermore, the short-circuit current density was significantly increased by WCM with a strong UV light-harvesting effect. The energy transfer from the Eu(III)-cored complex to the $TiO_2$ film occurred via the dye, so the number of electrons injected into the $TiO_2$ surface increased, i.e., the short-circuit current density was increased. As a result, BD/WCM-sensitized solar cells exhibit superior device performance with the enhanced conversion efficiency by a factor of 1.22 under AM 1.5 sunlight: The photovoltaic performance of the BD/WCM-based DSSC exhibited remarkably high values, $J_{sc}$ of 17.72 mA/$cm^2$, $V_{oc}$ of 720 mV, and a conversion efficiency of 9.28% at 100 mW $cm^{-2}$, compared to a standard DSSC with $J_{sc}$ of 15.53 mA/$cm^2$, $V_{oc}$ of 689 mV, and a conversion efficiency of 7.58% at 100 mW $cm^{-2}$. Therefore, the Eu(III)-cored complex is a promising candidate as a new wavelength conversion coadsorbent for highly efficient dye-sensitized solar cells to improve UV light harvesting through energy transfer processes. The abstract should be a single paragraph which summaries the content of the article.