• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2002

Computer code was developed to design waveguide gratings based on coupled-mode equations and the transfer matrix formalism. The experimental set-up has been constructed for inscribing Bragg gratings in planar waveguides with a phase mask and uv laser beam, which enables alignment and packaging of grating devices as well as in-situ performance measurements. Bragg grating has been fabricated on silica planar waveguides with 0.75% Germanium concentration and its transmittance spectrum was measured to have 95% reflectance at the peak wavelength. Optical losses as the function of the misalignment were measured and their usage is described.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.778-783
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• 2009

To fabricate uniform and reliable thin gold stripes that provide low-loss optical waveguides, we developed a novel liftoff process placing an additional $SiN_x$ layer under conventional photoresists. By patterning a photoresist and over-etching the $SiN_x$, the photoresist patterns become free-standing structures on a lower-cladding. This leads to uniform metal stripes with good reproducibility and effectively removes parasitic structures on the edge of the metal stripe in the image reversal photolithography process. By applying the newly developed process to polymer-based gold stripe waveguide fabrication, we improved the propagation losses about two times compared with that incurred by the conventional image-reversal process.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.139-147
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• 2021

Numerical analysis was performed using FIMMWAVE to optimize the specifications of Si₃N₄/SiO₂ slot and ridge-slot optical waveguides based on confinement factor and effective mode area. The optimized specifications were confirmed based on sensitivity in terms of the refractive index of the analyte. The specifications of the slot optical waveguide, i.e., the width of the slot and the width and height of the rails, were optimized to 0.2 ㎛, 0.46 ㎛, and 0.5 ㎛ respectively. When the wavelength was 1.55 ㎛ and the refractive index of the slot was 1.3, the confinement factor and effective mode area of 0.2024 and 2.04 ㎛², respectively, were obtained based on the optimized specifications. The thickness of the ridge and the refractive index of the slot were set to 0.04 ㎛ and 1.1, respectively, to optimize the ridge-slot optical waveguide, and the confinement factor and effective mode area were calculated as 0.1393 and 2.90 ㎛², respectively. When the confinement coefficient and detection degree of the two structures were compared in the range of 1 to 1.3 of the analyte index, it was observed that the confinement coefficient and sensitivity were higher in the ridge-slot optical waveguide in the region with a refractive index less than 1.133, but the reverse situation occurred in the other region. Therefore, in the implementation of the integrated optical biochemical sensor, it is possible to propose a selection criterion for the two parameters depending on the value of the refractive index of the analyte.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.403-406
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• 2011

Here we report Airy beams coupled with waveguide modes. These waveguide Airy (WAiry) beams propagate through layered planar structures inheriting the characteristics of waveguide modes as well as those of Airy beams, such as diffraction-free and accelerating features. In particular, we focus on the WAiry beams associated with backward waveguide modes, showing that the backward feature can alter the trajectories of the WAiry beams significantly. Based on this, we propose a new scheme of waveguide-type polarization/power beam splitters.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1990.07a
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• pp.123-132
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• 1990

The method of characteristic matrix used in the calculation of multi-layered optical coating is applied to the analysis of DFB waveguide with arbitrary structure of grating by plecewise approximation where the DFB structure is devided into many sections in which the gain and period, amplitude and phase of DFB structure are assuced to be constant in each section. The DFB structure with two section is analyzed using this method of C-matrix. The possible applications for photonic devices using DFB waveguides are proposed.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.176-177
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• 2003

초고속,대용량,유-무선 통합 등의 광 통신 시스템 발전 요구에 따라 광 검출기는 점점 더 초고속,고출력의 사양을 요구 받고 있다. 기존 광소자의 일반적인 광 검출기구조에서는 속도와 효율이 서로 상반되어,40GHz이상의 속도와 고효율을 모두 얻기가 매우 어려우므로, 이를 해결하기 위하여 수동 광도파로가 집적된 광 검출기가 필요하다. 도파로형 광 검출기는 일반적으로 잘 알려져 있는 구조이지만 입사광을 수용하고, 광의 크기를 조절하여 광 흡수층에 제대로 전달하기 위해서는 광 도파로 및 구조에 대한 연구가 필요하다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.07a
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• pp.206-207
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• 2003

광집적회로의 등장으로 그 설계에 있어서 다양한 구조의 광배선은 필수적 요소가 되었다. 일반적으로 전기적 배선 및 소자간에 전자기파의 간섭으로 인해 신호의 왜곡이 야기될 뿐 아니라 기생정전효과 등에 의해 소자 시간지연이 유발되듯이, 광 집적회로에서도 광배선간 감쇄필드의 겹침으로 인해 원하지 않는 광결합이 발생하게 된다. 이러한 광집적회로내에서의 이러한 불필요한 광결합을 줄이기 위해서 곡선형 구조의 광배선들이 이용되며 대부분의 경우 이러한 곡선형 도파로 부분의 광결합은 무시된다. (중략)

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.64-71
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• 2000

An optical switch composed of identical, equally-spaced $Ti:LiNbO_3$ three-waveguides was designed and fabricated. Patterned Ti was diffused into z-cut $LiNbO_3$ substrates. $SiO_2$ buffer layer was evaporated to reduce the propagation loss of TM mode, and Al electrodes of CPW structure were built on the layer for switching of the guided beam. The optical switching phenomenon was confirmed when a beam of ${\lambda}=1.3{\mu}m$ was launched into the center waveguide and an electric field was applied to detune the three waveguides symmetrically.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2004.05c
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• pp.21-23
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• 2004

We report experimental results demonstrating a novel metal defined polymer optical waveguide with a low loss in electro-optic polymers for the first time. The polymer optical waveguides are created using a metal film on the top of upper cladding without any conventional etching process. The fabricated waveguides have an excellent lateral optical mode confinement at both 1.31 ${\square}m$ and 1.55 ${\square}m$ wavelength, resulting in a fiber-to lens optical insertion loss of ~ 7 dB at 1.55 ${\square}m$ and ~4.5 dB at 1.31 ${\square}m$ wavelength in a 3.5cm total length for TM polarizations, respectively. We also present the optical loss dependence of the waveguide as a function of optical wavelengths. These results may be used in the complex design of integrated polymer optical circuits that need simpler and cheaper fabrication process.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.301-307
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• 2002

The propagation characteristic of an optical waveguide was investigated by measuring with a near-field scanning optical microscope (NSOM) the evanescent field formed at the neighbor of its core-cladding interface. For this purpose, the NSOM system was developed specially as a form of Photon scanning tunneling microscope. The evanescent field distributions of several channel waveguides were measured at the wavelength of 1550 ㎚, and the usefulness of the system was verified by comparing experimental results with simulation results. In particular, the interference phenomena of the guided modes during their propagation along a multimode channel waveguide could be observed directly from the measured evanescent field distribution.