• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.69.2-69.2
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• 2013

The direct detection of gravitational wave has a very important meaning as a basis for verification of the theory of relativity. Several laser interferometer detectors have attempted to detect GW directly (e.g. LIGO, VIRGO), but positional accuracy of GW detector is too wide (about 10~100sq deg) to find which objects emit GW. One of the main sources of GW is gamma-ray burst which can be detected even in electromagnetic wave. Then to verify Gamma-ray burst object as a GW source, we proceed EM follow-up observation with wide field of view. A first program initiating EM follow-ups to possible transients GW events has been developed and exercised by LIGO and VIRGO community in association with several partners. Using QUEST optical data, we tested the method of cross-convolution recommended by EM follow-up community. We will describe the results of that test.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.279-286
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• 2013

Brillouin spectroscopy has been widely used for the investigation of acoustic properties of condensed matters in the hypersonic region. A high-pressure Brillouin spectrometer was set up by combining a diamond anvil cell and a tandem multi-pass Fabry-Perot interferometer. It was successfully applied to liquid ethanol, and the pressure dependence of the sound velocity, the refractive index and other acoustic properties were derived based on the measurements. The detailed optical setup and experimental procedure are described.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.233-236
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• 1999

We have constructed a narrow-linewidth single-longitudinal-mode unidirectional $Er^{3+}$ -doped fiber laser using a fiber Bragg grating incorporated by a three port optical circulator with a compact configuration. Using a conventional delayed self-heterodyne detection technique with Mach-Zehnder interferometer a linewidth of 5 kHz was measured. In a single-longitudinal-mode operation, output power of up to 2.7 mW at 1548 nm were obtained for a launched pump power of 43 mW at 980 nm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.100-104
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• 2002

The quantum eraser experiment was revisited, using entangled photons of visible light in a Hong-Ou-Handel type interferometer with a magnitude two orders higher than before in count rates. We introduced which-path information by polarization and subsequently erasied this information by means of polarizers in front of detectors. It was found that the visibility of the interference fringe is revived from 0% to 88% as the polarizers are changed from 0$^{\circ}$ to 45$^{\circ}$.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07c
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• pp.1597-1598
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• 2006

광간섭계는 물체의 기하학적 구조 및 의료영상계측등 다양한 분야의 광계측에서 매우 일반적으로 사용된다. 이러한 광간섭계에서 광지연단은 측정대상의 기준을 위해 사용되고, 광간섭계의 계측속도는 광지연단에 의해 제한된다. 본 논문에서는 고속 광 지연단을 위해 기존의 기계적 방식을 배제하고, 광학적 방식의 광 간섭계를 구성하였다. 고속 광간섭계의 구성은 1304nm의 10GHz광원을 이용하였으며, 광지연단으로 광위상변조기와 광섬유를 이용하여 안정적이고 고속의 광 간섭계를 구성하였다. 구성된 광간섭계는 광위상변조기의 변조전압, 변조주파수에 의해 광지연시간을 가변할 수 있으며, 10MHz 반복율에 대해 11ps의 광지연시간을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.138-139
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• 2007

The use of conventional Twyman and Fizeau interferometers inevitably fails in testing high precision optics because of errors always existing in reference elements producing the reference wavefront. Therefore it is necessary to apply to this task the interferometers of a radically new type, which are able to produce perfect reference wavefront with the help of light diffraction by a small obstacle or pinhole. In this paper new theoretical approaches and schematics of point diffraction interferometers are considered in detail with paying attention to constructive reliability. Such interferometers do not use reference optical surfaces and readily provide adequate estimation of errors and aberrations value of 0.01 wavelengths.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.08a
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• pp.85-85
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• 1997

Czochralski 방법에 의해 육성된 Nd:YAG 단결정으로부터 CW mode의 1064nm laser를 발진시켰다. 육성된 단결정은 직경 50mm, 길이 120mm 이었으며, Nd 이온 농도는 O.2~0.9at% 이었다. 육성된 단결정 boule로 부터 결정학적 결함부위인 core 및 facet가 없는 양질의 단결정 부위를 Twyman-Green interferometer로 선빌하였다. 추출핀 부위는 절단, 가공, 연마공정 및 코팅 공정을 통해 직경 6.35mm, 길이 lOOmm의 laser rod를 제작하였다. 절단은 core drill, 또는 원통 연삭기를 사용하여 rod 형태로 가공하였으며, 상$\cdot$하면 polishing은 평행도 10", 직각도 5', 평활도 $\lambda$/10 수준까지 실험실에서 자체 가공하여 일반적인 laser 발진용 rod의 spec.을 만족시킬 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 2008

We propose a simple hydrogen detection scheme based on a Mach-Zehnder interferometer formed with a pair of palladium-coated long-period fiber gratings (LPGs). Since an LPG pair offered a fine-structured interference fringe in its transmission spectrum, the resolution as a sensor could be appreciably enhanced compared to that of a single LPG. As the palladium layer absorbed hydrogen, the effective refractive indices of the cladding modes were increased so that the interference spectrum was blue-shifted up to 2.3 nm with a wavelength sensitivity of -0.29 nm/min for 4% of hydrogen concentration.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.230-235
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• 2014

Two-step quadrature phase-shifting digital holography based on the calculated intensity of a reference wave is proposed. In the Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) architecture, the method only records two quadrature-phase holograms, without reference-wave intensity or object-wave intensity measurement, to perform object recoding and reconstruction. When the reference-wave intensity is calculated from the 2D correlation coefficient (CC) method that we presented, the clear reconstruction image can be obtained by some specific algorithm. Its feasibility and validity were verified by a series of experiments with 2D objects and 3D objects. The presented method will be widely used in real-time or dynamic digital holography applications.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.288-291
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• 2014

This paper presents a new method for measuring the half-wave voltage $V_{\pi}$ of an electro-optic phase modulator based on a phase-modulated photonic link with interferometric demodulation. By using this method, the $V_{\pi}$ can be obtained with the RF voltage amplitude input required to achieve 1-dB gain compression of link and the differential delay of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. We measure the $V_{\pi}$ of a commercial phase modulator by using the presented method and the carrier/the first sideband intensity ratio method. Furthermore, we compare the two measurements with the typical value provided by the manufacturer. The experiment shows that this novel measurement method is feasible, straightforward, and accurate.