• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.351-356
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• 2015

Visible light communication (VLC) is considered to be an attractive scheme to realize the broadband wireless communication for an indoor environment. We present a room division multiplexing (RDM) mechanism for an indoor multi-room VLC network, which utilizes the spatial position of the LED lamp in different rooms as a novel dimension of network resource for multiplexing, and thus the network capacity is increased. In such a network, the service interruption caused by user cross-room movement is an important problem, and we propose a double-area-positioning based cross-room switch solution. An experimental platform demonstrates the RDM-deployed VLC network, and validates the performance of the presented switch mechanism.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SD
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• 제41권10호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2004

광소자의 재료물질로서 특성이 우수하며 열광학계수가 큰 silicon을 기반으로 한 SOI (Silicon-on-insulator)를 사용하여 열광학 1×2 광스위치를 제안, 제작하였다. SOI wafer는 도파로가 형성될 상위 Si 층(n=3.5)과 클래딩 영역이 될 산화막 매립층(n=1.5) 그리고 기판인 Si인 3층으로 이루어진다. BPM(Beam propagation method) 전산모의를 통해 20dB 이상의 누화특성을 갖는 단일모드의 1×2 비대칭 y-분기 광도파로를 형성하고, 열확산 전산모의를 통해 금속열선을 설계 제작하였다. 제작된 광스위치는 약 3.5 watts의 구동 전력에서 20dB 이상의 채널간 누화가 측정되었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.73-79
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• 1999

1$\times$2, 1$\times$4 및 4$\times$4 LD-gate형 반도체 광스위치 모듈을 제작하였다. 스위치 소자와 광섬유와의 광결합을 위해서 테이퍼드 광섬유를 어레어로 제작하여 사용하였으며 30핀 버터플라이형 패키지로 완성하였다. 광 부푼 정렬 및 고정에서는 레이저 용접법 및 햄머링 공정을 이용하여 최초의 광정렬 값에서 평균 82%까지 복원하였다. 완성된 모듈에 대한 평가를 위해 전송 실험을 수행하였는데 1$\times$2 스위치 모듈이 삽입되었을 때 223-1의 단어길이를 갖는2.5Gbps 광신호에 대해서 전송패널티가 약0.5dB~2dB로 나타났으며, 광섬유의 분산특성에 의하여 발생하는 전송 패널티에 대해서는 50km 및 90km 광섬유에 대해서 각각 0.6dB 및 0.7dB의 작은 패널티가 발생하였다. 1$\times$4 및 4$\times$4 스위치 모듈을 이용한 전송특성 평가에서도 모두 -30dB 이하의 수신감도를 갖는 우수한 결과를 보였다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.254-258
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• 2002

To realize channel cross-connecting in optical communications systems, a high speed optical matrix switch was fabricated using z-cut $LiNbO_3$. For switch fabrication was design bending structure and coupling length and four $2{\times}2$ directional couplers were integrated on one substrate far construction of a $4{\times}4$ switch. Single-mode optical waveguides were formed by Ti-diffusion at a wet $O_2$ atmosphere. Ti-diffusion profile, refractive index variation and waveguide morphology were analyzed by Prism coupler and optical microscopy, respectively.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.111-114
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• 2002

We propose and fabricate a vertically integrated waveguide thermo-optic switch. It controls the optical path between two vertically stacked waveguide. As a first step, we fabricate polymeric waveguides. The measured propagation loss is ranged from 0.3 db/cm to 0.4 dB/cm at the wavelength of 1.55 $\mu\textrm{m}$. We fabricate the proposed vertically integrated waveguide thermo-optic switch to demonstrate its preliminary feasibility. The measured crosstalk is better than -10 db. The power consumption is about 500 mW. Further effort is necessary to improve its performance.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.117-130
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• 2002

Due to its salient features, the optical burst switch is becoming a key technology for the optical Internet. Within this technology, the survivability issue in the optical Internet has to be addressed because a simple failure causes severe damage to the huge amount of data carried in optical fiber. In this paper, we introduce a restoration procedure that can provide good survivability in the optical burst switch (OBS)-based optical Internet. OBS restoration can survive various types of network failure while maintaining good network performance. We propose novel restoration mechanisms, namely, "temporary Label Switched Path (LSP)" and "bossy LSP," to enhance restoration time and network utilization. The simulation results verify that the proposed OBS restoration achieves good network performance and provides good network connectivity as well.

• 소성∙가공
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.103-107
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• 2002

With the great demand for WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) optical communications, optical switches are expected to become one of the dominant components in future networks. Conventional mechanical switches suffer from poor reliability and large size; however, many micromachined optical switches with moving mirrors have been proposed for high scale OXC (Optical Crossconnect) or ADM (Add/Drop Multiplex) because of the low power consumption and high reliability of these switches. In this paper, we introduce the technological trends of optical switches using MEMS, related micromachining technologies and their characteristics.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.287-291
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• 2009

In this paper, an optical switch/modulator is designed and its light propagating characteristics analyzed using a simplified BPM. The distinctive feature of this switch/modulator is that all its waveguide branches are designed as single-mode. The principle of the device is based on the coupled mode theory in the Y-junction interconnecting waveguide. In spite of the fact all waveguides are designed as single-mode, by adjusting the interconnecting waveguide length'of the device the same characteristics as existing up to date devices are obtainable. Numerical results show that the switching characteristics periodically depend upon an interconnecting waveguide length with a spatial of about $150^{{\mu}m}$ in the $Ti:LiNbO_3$ step index waveguide. The design concept would therefore be utilized effectively in fabricating a monolithic high density optical integrated circuit.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권10호
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• pp.1829-1834
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• 2008

An optical switch/modulator is designed and the light propagating characteristics is analyzed by the simplified BPM. The distinctive feature of the switch/modulator is that all the waveguide branches are designed to be single-mode. Principle of the device is based on the coupled mode theory in the Y-junction interconnecting waveguide. In spite of all the waveguides are designed to be single-mode, adjusting the interconnecting waveguide length of the device, the same characteristics as existing device up to date is obtainable. Numerical results show that the switching characteristics periodically depends on the interconnecting waveguide length with a spatial of about 150${\mu}m$ in the Ti:LiNbO3 step index waveguide. The concept of design would be utilized effectively in fabricating the monolithic high density of optical integrated circuit.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.469-472
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• 2005

To enhance the scalability of high performance packet switches, a two-stage load-balanced switch has recently been introduced, in which each stage uses a deterministic sequence of configurations. The switch is simple to make scalable and has been proven to provide 100% throughput. However, the load-balanced switch may mis-sequence the packets. In this paper, we propose an algorithm called full frame stuff (FFS), which maintains packet order in the two-stage load-balanced switch and has excellent switching performance. This algorithm is distributed and each port can operate independently.