• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.65.1-65
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• 2003

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.33-37
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• 2003

A low-power $1{\times}2$ polymeric thermo-optic switch with a trench structure is proposed and fabricated. The trench structure in the optimized region slows down the heat flow from the electrodes, which contributes to the reduction of power consumption. The temperature distribution in the polymer layers has been adjusted to increase the temperature gradient between the two arms of the Y-branch. For comparison, a $1{\times}2$ polymeric thermo-optic switch with no trench structure is fabricated together on the same substrate. In the device with a trench structure, the measured crosstalk is less than -17.0 dB for TE polarization.-15.0 dB for TM polarization. The power consumption is about 66 mW, which is 25% less than that of the device with no trench structure.

• International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.24-30
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• 2002

This paper demonstrates a comparison of linear and nonlinear analyses for thermo-optic effects of optical temperature sensor based on the etched silica-based planar waveguide Bragg grating. Topics include theoretical analyses and experiment of the etched planar waveguide Bragg grating optical temperature sensor. Theoretical models with nonlinear than linear temperature effect for the grating response based on waveguide and plate deformation theories agree with experiments to within acceptable tolerance.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.739-744
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• 2006

In this paper, we report numerically calculated results of testing a temperature-insensitive refractive sensor based on a planar-type long-period waveguide grating (LPWG). The LPWG consists of properly chosen polymer materials with an optimized thermo-optic coefficient for the core layer in a four-layer waveguide structure. The resonant wavelength shift below the spectral resolution of the conventional optical spectrum analyzer is obtained accurately over a temperature change of ${\pm}7.5^{\circ}C$ even without any temperature control. The refractive index sensitivity of the proposed grating scheme is about 0.004 per resonant wavelength shift of 0.1 nm for an optimized thermo-optic coefficient.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.263-268
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• 2006

We have demonstrated a highly sensitive temperature sensor using an etched single mode fiber with a thermally expanded core region. Large core size of thermally expanded core facilitates access to evanescent wave by the wet etching. The etched region was surrounded by a low dispersive external medium with high thermo-optic coefficient. Due to the large difference between the dispersion property of the fiber and that of the external medium, the device reveals a cut-off properties at spectral region. The cut-off wavelength was shifted by the variations of the environmental temperatures because of thermo-optic effect of the external medium. The sensitivity of the fabricated device was found to be $45nm/^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.2049-2054
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• 2006

This paper demonstrates a comparison of linear and nonlinear analyses for thermo-optic effects of optical temperature sensor based on the etched silica-based planar waveguide Bragg grating. Topics include theoretical analyses and experiment of the etched planar waveguide Bragg grating optical temperature sensor, Theoretical models with nonlinear than linear temperature effect for the grating response based on waveguide and plate deformation theories agree with experiments to within acceptable tolerance.

• 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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• 2003.02a
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• pp.166-167
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• 2003

실리콘 기판 위에 제작되는 실리카 물질은 낮은 가격, 파이버와의 높은 결합 효율 그리고 고집적화의 장점으로 PLC(Planar Light Circuit)에 사용되고 있다. PLC 광소자 중에서 열 광학 스위치(Thermo-optic switch)는, NⅹN 매트릭스 스위치와 Add／drop multiplexer 등 비교적 낮은 속도를 갖는 광 신호 처리를 위해 중요한 소자이다. 기존의 열 광학 스위치의 경우, 방향성 결합기를 사용한 Mach-Zehnder 구조로써, 위상 제어단에서 두 도파로 간의 광 전력 교환을 막기 위해 방향성 결합기의 양쪽 끝단에에 굽은 도파로를 이용한다. (중략)

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.119-122
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• 2005

Silica-based $2\times2$ thermo-optic (TO) switch using the MMI couplers which have a large fabrication tolerance of 110 (${\mu}m$ were fabricated and operated. Important features of the proposed switch are shown to be a polarization dependency loss of 0.1dB, an extinction ratio of 32.7dB, and a power consumption of 202.8mW.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.57-63
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• 2000

A multi-branch thermo-optic switch has a problem that driving powers in the switching states are different from each other; the power consumption for the inner output port is more than twice as large as that form the outer output port. In this pater, to solve this problem unequal width heaters and the waveguide structure with a thin overcladding layer are proposed in a four-branch thermo-optic switch. The proposed structure is fabricated with the polymer materials with high index difference, Teflon and polyimides. The fabricated device was measured at the wavelength of 1550 nm. The measured characteristics exhibit the smaller difference in the power consumption between the switching states and the driving power les than the previous four-branch thermo-optic switch with equal width heaters. As for the device performance, the crosstalk is better than - 16 dB at about 310 ~ 390 mW, the insertion loss is 4.7 dB, and the switching time is less than 1 ms.