• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.134-139
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• 2002

We report an experimental investigation of the wavelength and polarization selectivity of a side-polished fiber in contact with a metal-clad planar waveguide. The influences of the structural parameters of the planar waveguide, including refractive index of the superstrate and metal thickness, on the optical transmission characteristics of the device were measured and explained. The conditions for high wavelength and polarization selectivity wore predicted and demonstrated experimentally.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.228-234
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• 2002

We report theoretical investigation on the polarization selective coupling characteristics of a side-polished fiber directional coupler with a thin metal interlayer. Based on normal mode theory the coupling properties of the device under various structural conditions are analyzed. It is shown that the coupling strength between TE modes weakens rapidly with increase or metal interlayer thickness, whereas that between TM modes becomes stronger. The design conditions of the polarization splitter using the coupler to achieve high extinction ratio and low insertion loss are presented.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.222-228
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• 2004

The variable optical attenuator based on side polished fiber technique was experimentally demonstrated. Various combination mixtures of poly(vinylidene fluoride) and poly(methyl methacrylate) have been used as the overlay waveguide materials for the variable optical attenuator application. A controllable amount of optical power can be extracted via evanescent coupling by changing the temperature of the polymer mixture, thereby changing its refractive index. The VOA under test provides a maximum attenuation of 30 ㏈ and an insertion loss of 0.1 ㏈.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.337-341
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• 2010

A high sensitivity fiber optic temperature sensor based on a side-polished fiber (SPF) coupled to a tapered multimode overlay waveguide (MMOW) is proposed and studied. Both tapered and non-tapered MMOW were considered to study the effect of tapering of MMOW on the characteristics of the device and to investigate the criticality of the uniformity of the multimode overlay waveguide over the SPF. Present study shows that tapering of the MMOW can be used to tune the desired wavelength range without any loss in the sensitivity. Sensitivity up to 9 nm/$^{\circ}C$ within the temperature range of 25 to $100^{\circ}C$ can be achieved with the proposed sensor, almost 6 times higher compared even to state-of-the-art high-sensitivity grating-based fiber optic temperature sensors.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.57-62
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• 2004

We report the fiber-optic current sensors composed of a side-polished single-mode fiber with the thermo-optic Polymer layer and the metal wire as a heater. The index change of polymer layers caused by the resistant heat of the metal wires induces the optical attenuation through the evanescent field of the side-polished single-mode fiber. Two types of the sensors are proposed and their characteristics as a current sensor are investigated.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.195-198
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• 2014

In this paper, a measurement method to obtain the optical properties of a liquid base on a side-polished single mode fiber was proposed and demonstrated. The device showed periodic resonance coupling against wavelengths. The refractive index and dispersion characteristics of a liquid were calculated by use of the spacings of periodic resonance wavelengths of the device. The thermo-optic coefficient of the liquid was obtained by monitering the shift of resonance wavelengths of the devices with change of environmental temperature.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.253-256
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• 2000

We report the experimental results for the coupling properties of the an side-polished single-mode fiber covered with metal-clad planar waveguide. The experimental results show that the large birefringence of a metal-clad planar waveguide facilitates the effective separation of TE and TM polarization in the spectral domain. Additionally the resonant wavelengths of the device are tuned based in the thermo-optic effect of polymer planar waveguide.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.461-466
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• 2002

Fiber-optic comb filters using a side-polished fiber coupler are proposed as multi-channel isolation filters on wavelength division multiplexing systems. We have demonstrated that the coupling efficiency between two waveguides is improved by the intermediate coupling layer in spite of the decrease of the optical power transfer between two waveguides due to the high-order modes of the overlay waveguide coupled with the side-polished single-mode fiber. When LiNbO$_3$with a 200-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-thickness was applied as a planar-overlay-waveguide, the comb filtering characteristics with a 4 nm-channel-spacing were achieved and the maximum power coupling occurred at the 1-${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$-thickness and the refractive index in range 1.52 to 1.53 of an intermediate coupling layer. If the intermediate coupling layer is optimized, an extinction ratio with more than 20 dB can be obtained. These experimental results are in good agreement with the BPM simulation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.9
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• pp.50-55
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• 1999

In this paper we proposed a variable optical attenuator using the side polished fiber coupled with a refractive index matching liquid. Small variation of refractive index of matching liquid can induce very large change of optical loss due to the coupling between the fiber mode and radiation mode. The thermo-optic effect of matching liquid was used to ontrol the optical attenuation. The side polished fiber block was fabricated using the silicon V gloove. Experimental results showed that $5^{\circ}C$ temperature variation was enough to adjust full range attenuation. The polarization dependent loss and insertion loss of the fabricated devices were 0.5dB and 0.2dB respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.9A
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• pp.754-762
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• 2003

The coupled and propagated property of the composite side-polished fiber and infinite planar waveguide with conductor cladding (PWGCC) is presented by using the 3-D finite difference beam propagating method (FD-BPM) in according to the variety of refractive indexes between the fiber and the infinite planar waveguide. It is also introduced for the technique to be applied at and consisted of the analysis domain of 3-D FD-BPM for the coupling between the side-polished fiber and PWG. It is also compared the properties of coupling between the side-polished fiber and PWGCC with them of the general symmetric and asymmetric PWG without perfect conductor (PEC), which has been investigated by many researcher.