• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.190-191
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.355-356
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.396-397
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• 2009

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.248-253
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• 1999

In this paper, we have investigated a fiber type active coupler which utilizes the mode coupling between the side polished single mode optical fiber and the active multimode planar waveguide. The proposed device can be used for not only tunable wavelength filter or optical intensity modulator but also a tool for measuring optical properties of guiding material such as refractive index, birefringence, electro-optic coefficient, and thermo-optic coefficient. We gave designed and optimized a coupler structure using the BPM and fabricated the device using thermo-optic polymer as active planar waveguide overlay. The device showed that insertion loss was less then 0.5 dB, extinction ratio was -13 dB at the resonance wavelength, and the wavelength tunablity due to thermo-optic effect was -1.5 nm/$^{\circ}C$. The active coupler using thermo-optic effect can be used as a wavelength tunable filer, an optical intensity modulator and an optical sensor. pulses that are subsequently compressed by a dispersive optical fiber. Experimental results show that $sech^2$ shape pulses with a pulse width of ~14 ps and a time bandwidth product of ~0.34 are successfully generated at 10 GHz repetition rate. In contrast to other methods, such as higher order soliton compression, this approach does not depend on the optical power and thus shows promise for application to low-power lasers.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.169-174
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• 2003

We report theoretical and experimental investigation of a polarizer made of single mode side-polished fiber covered with a metal film. The influence of the metal film thickness and the refractive index of overlay on the device performance has been analyzed in terms of the normal mode theory. Based on the theoretical prediction, a polarizer with 40 ㏈ of polarization extinction ratio and 0.5 ㏈ insertion loss at optical communication wavelength has been realized.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.340-345
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• 2014

We experimentally demonstrate the use of a gold-deposited side-polished fiber as a $2-{\mu}m$-band polarizing device to produce mode-locked pulses from a thulium/holmium-codoped fiber ring cavity. The mode-locking effect was induced by nonlinear transmission caused by the gold-deposited side-polished fiber, due to nonlinear polarization rotation of the oscillated beam within the fiberized cavity. It is also shown that ~558-fs pulses with a peak power of ~6.7 kW could readily be produced at a wavelength of 1935 nm through subsequent thulium/holmium-codoped fiber amplification, due to the higher-order soliton compression effect.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.467-472
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a polarization-insensitive temperature sensor using a thermo-optic effect of the upper and (or) lower cladding of a planar waveguide in contact with a side-polished fiber. A microscope cover glass with thickness of a 170 ${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ is adopted as an overlay waveguide because this waveguide opposes sudden temperature change and ensures polarization-insensitive responses. The measured polarization-dependence loss is less than 0.3 dB. The temperature can be detected as a result of the shift in coupling wavelength of the sensor. We investigate the shift in coupling wavelength as a function of the temperature variation with respect to the different thermo-optic coefficients of lower and upper claddings. We also show that the temperature sensitivity of the device can be easily controlled by the thermo-optic coefficients of lower and upper claddings of the overlay waveguide.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.50-51
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• 2002

측면 연마된 광섬유 표면 위에 새로운 물질층을 형성시킨 후 광섬유 모드의 소산장(evanescent field) 결합을 유도하여 다양한 능동 및 수동 광섬유로 응용이 가능하다. 광섬유를 연마하기 위하여 쿼츠에 형성된 홈에 광섬유를 에폭시로 고정시키고 쿼츠와 함께 광섬유 클래딩을 연마하는 방법이 잘 알려져 있다. 이러한 방법은 측면 연마된 광섬유를 연마하는데 다소 긴 시간이 필요하다. 본 논문은 광섬의 클래딩을 연마휠로 제거하는 기법을 소개하고 연마된 광섬유의 클래딩 위에 금속이나 유전체층을 결합하여 기능성 광섬유 소자를 제작할 수 있음을 보인다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.18-19
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• 2003

측면 연마 광섬유 결합기는 비록 제작 공정이 다소 복잡하지만 다양한 응용이 가능하기 때문에 많은 연구가 진행 되어 왔다. 특히 최근에는 광센서나 초고속 광통신망에 편광 유지 광섬유를 이용한 광학소자의 필요성이 증가 하고 있다. 본 논문은 얇은 중간 금속 층을 가지는 측면 연마 편광 유지 광섬유 결합기를 이용한 편광 분리기에 관한 실험 연구 결과를 보고한다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.182-183
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• 2002