• 청정기술
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.203-207
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• 2016

Here, we report a novel fabrication technique for patchable organic lasing sheet based on non-volatile liquid organic semiconductors and freestanding polymeric film with high flexibility and patchability. For this work, we have fabricated the second-order DFB grating structure, which leads to surface emission, embedded in the freestanding polymeric film. Using an ultra-violet (UV) curable polyurethaneacrylate (PUA) mixture, the periodic DFB grating structure can be easily prepared on the freestanding polymeric film via a simple UV curing process. Due to unsaturated acrylate remained in the PUA mixture after UV curing, the freestanding PUA film provides adhesive properties, which enable mounting of the patchable organic lasing sheet onto non-flat surfaces with conformal contact. To achieve laser actions in the freestanding resonator structure, a composite material of liquid 9-(2-ethylhexyl)carbazole (EHCz) and organic laser dyes was used as the laser medium. Since the degraded active materials can be easily refreshed by a simple injection of the liquid composite, such a non-volatile liquid organic semiconducting medium has degradation-free and recyclable characteristics in addition to other strong advantages including tunable optoelectronic responses, solvent-free processing, and ultimate mechanical flexibility and uniformity. Lasing properties of the patchable organic lasing sheet were also investigated after mounting onto non-flat surfaces, showing a mechanical tunability of laser emission under variable surface curvature. It is anticipated that these results will be applied to the development of various patchable optoelectronic applications for light-emitting displays, sensors and data communications.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.370-374
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• 1996

Superstructure Grating Distributed-Bragg Reflector(SSG DBR) 레이저는 비교적 높은 Mode Suppression Ratio(MSR)을 가지면서 넓은 파장 대에서 불연속 파장가변 특성을 가진다. 그러나 SSG DBR 레이저는 출력파장을 가변 시킬 때 파장가변 영역을 구성하는 채널 중 몇 개가 빠지는 현상이 실험을 통해 관찰되어 왔다. 우리는 수치해석적인 시뮬레이션을 통해 이 현상이 SSG DBR 거울을 구성하는 linearly chirped grating의 불균일한 반사 피크 높이에 의한 영향임을 발견했고 반사율 피크 높이를 거의 균일하게 만들 수 있는 nonlinearly chirped grating을 제안한다. 그리고 이 거울을 가지는 파장 가변 레이저가 채널의 손실 없이 넓은 파장가변 영역에서 동작하는 것을 확인했다. 그러므로 nonlinearly chirped grating을 가지는 DBR 거울은 넓은 파장가변 영역을 가지는 가변 레이저에 적용할 수 있다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.366-371
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• 1997

기체상태의 루비듐 원자가 실온에서 Maxwell 속도 분포를 이루고 있을 때 광펌핑 현상과 특정 속도 원자의 선택에 의해 도플러 효과를 제거시키는 속도군 선택 광펌핑(VSOP) 분광학을 실시하였다. 본 실험에서는 주파수가 고정된 locked laser와 주파수 튜닝이 가능한 sweep laser를 동시에 사용하되, 두 빔을 같은 방향으로 진행시키고, 시료 속에서 서로 겹치게 함으로써 주공진 신호만을 발생시킬 수 있었다. 이 방법으로 지금까지 알려진 VSOP 분광학보다 원자들의 속도 선택 범위가 더 넓어졌다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.203-206
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• 2017

We report a passive Q-switching of an all-fiber erbium-doped fiber laser delivering high pulse energy by using a high quality single-walled carbon nanotube saturable absorber (SWCNT-SA). A side-polished fiber coated with the SWCNT is employed as an in-line SA for evanescent wave interaction between the incident light and the SWCNT. This lateral interaction scheme enables a stable Q-switched fiber laser that generates high pulse energy. The central wavelength of the Q-switched pulse laser was measured as 1560 nm. A repetition rate frequency of the Q-switched laser is controlled from 78 kHz to 190 kHz by adjusting the applied pump power from 124 mW to 790 mW. The variation of pulse energy from 51 nJ to 270 nJ is also observed as increasing the pump power. The pulse energy of 270 nJ achieved at maximum pump power is 3 times larger than those reported in Q-switched all-fiber lasers using a SWCNT-SA. The tunable behaviors in pulse duration, pulse repetition rate, and pulse energy as a function of pump power are reported, and are well matched with theoretical expectation.

• 한국연소학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2004

Diode laser absorption sensors are advantageous because they may provide fast, sensitive, absolute, and selective measurements of species concentration. These systems are very attractive for practical applications owing to its compactness, resonable cost, robustness, and ease of use. In addition, diode lasers are fiber-optic compatible and thus enable simultaneous measurements of multiple species along a line-of-sight. Recent advances of room-temperature, near-IR and visible diode laser sources for telecommunication, optical data storage applications make it possible to be applied for combustion diagnostics based on diode laser absorption spectroscopy. Therefore, combined with fiber-optics and high sensitive detection strategies, compact and portable sensor systems are now appearing for variety of applications. The objectives of this research are to develope a new gas sensing system and to verify feasibility of this system. Wavelength and power characteristics as a function of injection current and temperature are experimentally found out. Direct absorption spectroscopy has been demonstrated in these experiments and has a bright prospect to this diode laser system.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.401-407
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• 2019

Polymeric optical waveguide devices with Bragg gratings have been investigated, for implementing tunable lasers and wavelength filters used in wavelength-division-multiplexed optical communication systems. Owing to the excellent thermo-optic effect of these polymers, wavelength tuning is possible over a wide range, which is difficult to achieve using other optical materials. In this study the phase-mask technology, which has advantages over the conventional interferometeric method, was introduced to facilitate the fabrication of Bragg gratings in polymeric optical waveguide devices. An optical setup capable of fabricating multiple Bragg gratings simultaneously on a 4-inch silicon wafer was constructed, using a 442-nm laser and phase mask. During fabrication, some of the diffracted light in the phase mask was totally reflected inside the mask, which affected the quality of the Bragg grating adversely, so experiments were conducted to solve this issue. To verify grating uniformity, two types of wavelength-filtering devices were fabricated using the phase-mask lithography, and their reflection and transmission spectra were measured. From the results, we confirmed that the phase-mask method provides good uniformity, and may be applied for mass production of polymer Bragg-grating waveguide devices.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.347-355
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• 2002

티타늄 사파이어 레이저에 대한 활용도를 높기 위하여 4개의 거울로 구성된 Z-형태의 대칭형 레이저 공진기를 구성하여 넓은 파장가변성을 갖는 고효율 연속 발진 티타늄 사파이어 레이저를 제작하였다. 또한 Kerr-렌즈 모드-록킹(KLM)을 일으키기 위한 KLM 강도 및 공진기 모드 크기가 Kerr 매질을 포함하는 Z-형태의 대칭형 공진기에 대하여 공진기 내의 위치, 내부 공진기 레이저 출력 및 안정 파라메터 등에 의존함을 확인하였고, 이를 근거로 하여 펌핑 효율이 높고 KLM 강도가 강한 KLM 티타늄 사파이어 레이저를 제작하여 출력 특성, 펄스폭 및 스펙트럼 반치폭 등을 측정하였다. 그 결과 연속 발진 티타늄 사파이어 레이저의 출력에 대한 기울기 효율은 31.3%이고, 5W의 Ar-이온 펌핑 레이저 출력에 대해 최대 1420㎽의 평균 출력을 얻을 수 있었으며, 파장가변 영역은 730㎚~908㎚까지 모두 700㎽ 이상의 평균 출력을 보였다. 자체-조리개 효과에 의한 KLM 동작 또한 쉽게 얻을 수 있었으며, KLM된 티타늄 사파이어 레이저로부터 출력에 대한 기울기 효율은 16%이고, 5W 펌핑 출력에 대해 최대 500㎽의 평균 출력을 얻었다. 또한 중심 파장 807㎚에서 스펙트럼 반치폭이 33㎚이며, 펄스 반복률이 82㎒인 27fs의 안정된 짧은 펄스를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국재료학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.140-144
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• 2012

Compared with bulk material, quantum dots have received increasing attention due to their fascinating physical properties, including optical and electronic properties, which are due to the quantum confinement effect. Especially, Luminescent CdSe quantum dots have been highly investigated due to their tunable size-dependent photoluminescence across the visible spectrum. They are of great interest for technical applications such as light-emitting devices, lasers, and fluorescent labels. In particular, quantum dot-based light-emitting diodes emit high luminance. Quantum dots have very high luminescence properties because of their absorption coefficient and quantum efficiency, which are higher than those of typical dyes. CdSe quantum dots were synthesized as a function of the synthesis time and synthesis temperature. The photoluminescence properties were found strongly to depend on the reaction time and the temperature due to the core size changing. It was also observed that the photoluminescence intensity is decreased with the synthesis time due to the temperature dependence of the band gap. The wavelength of the synthesized quantum dots was about 550-700 nm and the intensity of the photoluminescence increased about 22~70%. After the CdSe quantum dots were synthesized, the particles were found to have grown until reaching a saturated concentration as time increased. Red shift occurred because of the particle growth. The microstructure and phase developments were measured by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray diffractometry (XRD), respectively.