• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.228-229
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• 2003

The quasi-phase matching (QPM) technique has dramatically changed the guidelines in developing nonlinear optical materials, which doesn't require birefringence and off-diagonal components for efficient wavelength conversion. Minimum requirement for QPM is the modulation of nonlinearity and ferroelectric materials with low coercive field has become fascinating in periodical poling. Stoichiometric lithium tantalate (SLT) has attractive advantages of low coercive field (∼l .5 KV/mm), high nonlinearity, high optical damage resistance and low thermo-optic coefficients, leading to a large aperture QPM devices for high power operation. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.224-225
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• 2003

Since group velocity (GV) mismatch significantly limits the efficiency of nonlinear interactions such as second harmonic generation (SHG), several techniques have been developed to compensate GV mismatch. The simplest way to avoid the GV mismatch problem is to reduce the device length. However, it results in a poor trade-off between the SHG spectral bandwidth and the conversion efficiency. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.218-219
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• 2003

Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM)과 Time Division Multiplexed (TDM) 광 네트워크에서 전광 파장변환은 미래 초고속통신의 핵심 기술이다. 파장변환장치는 정보 소통량 관리에 유연성을 부여함과 동시에 광 네트워크의 동적 재구성을 용이하게 한다. 최근에 주기적 분극을 가진 LiNbO$_3$ 도파로를 이용한 몇몇 파장변환실험들이 성공적으로 수행됨으로써, Difference Frequency Generation (DFG)와 같은 2차 비선형 분극을 이용한 파장변환 장치에 대한 관심이 증대되고 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.02a
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• pp.236-237
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• 2001

최근 빠른 정보산업의 발달로 대용량의 정보를 초고속으로 전달해야 할 필요성으로 인해 광전송 시스템의 개발이 활발히 진행되고 있다. 특히 광통신 시스템이나 주변의 계측장비들과의 결합이 쉽다는 잇점 때문에 모드록킹된 광섬유 레이저는 이 분야의 광원으로서 매우 중요하게 쓰이고 있으며, 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 본 실험에 사용된 광섬유 레이저는 파장 1.55 $mu extrm{m}$대역에서 이득을 얻을 수 있는 어븀(Er$^{3+}$ )이 첨가된 광섬유를 사용하여 4.5 MHz의 빠른 반복률로 모드록킹 되도록 제작된 (Newgrid, (FFL-1550-PML-0) 것이며 펄스 폭은 320 fs, 중심파장은 1.566 $\mu\textrm{m}$, 펄스의 첨두 출력은 6.3 kW이다. (중략)

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.130-132
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• 2007

The characteristics of $S\breve{o}lc$ filters in $X^{(2)}$ nonlinear photonic crystals, periodically poled lithium niobate ($LiNbO_3$), were investigated by the Jones matrix method. The transmittance increases and the full width half maximum of the filter becomes narrow as the duty ratio increases. However, the filtering wavelength does not change. The transmittance at the filtering wavelength is over 95% when the duty ratio is larger than 0.35.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.97-102
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• 2013

Frequency tuning characteristics of a THz-wave by varying phase-matching angle and pump wavelength in a noncollinear phase-matching THz-wave parametric oscillator (TPO) are analyzed. A novel scheme to realize the tuning of a THz-wave by moving the cavity mirror forwards and backwards is proposed in a noncollinear phase-matching TPO. The parametric gain coefficients of the THz-wave in a $LiNbO_3$ crystal are explored under different working temperatures. The relationship between the poling period of periodically poled $LiNbO_3$ (PPLN) and the THz-wave frequency under the condition of a quasi-phase-matching configuration is deduced. Such analyses have an impact on the experiments of the TPO.

• Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.124-127
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• 2005

It is demonstrated that the annealing process for Ti in-diffusion to z-cut $LiNbO_3$ at temperature lower than the curie temperature in a platinum (Pt) box can cause a ferroelectric micro-domain inversion at the +z surface and Li out-diffusion, therefore which should be avoided or suppressed for waveguide type periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) devices. The depth of the inversion layer depends on the Ti-diffusion conditions such as temperature, atmosphere, the sealing method of $LiNbO_3$ in the Pt box and crystal orientation is experimentally examined. The result shows that the polarization-inverted domain boundary appears at the only +z surface and its thickness is about $1.6{\mu}m$. Also, for the etched $LiNbO_3$, surface the domain shape was observed by the optical microscope and atomic force microscopy (AEM), and distribution of the cation concentrations in the $LiNbO_3$ crystal by the secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS).

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.154-158
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• 2019

We have used a mid-IR (mid-infrared) continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillator (OPO), developed previously and described in Ref. 12, to build a performance-evaluation setup for a mid-IR spectrometer. The used CW OPO had a wavelength tuning range of $ 2.5-3.6{\mu}m$ using a pump laser with a wavelength of 1064 nm and a fan-out MgO-doped periodically poled lithium niobate (MgO:PPLN) nonlinear crystal in a concentric cavity design. The OPO was combined with a near-IR integrating sphere and a Fourier-transform IR optical spectrum analyzer to build a performance-evaluation setup for mid-IR spectrometers. We applied this performance-evaluation setup to evaluating a mid-IR spectrometer developed domestically, and demonstrated the capability of evaluating the performance, such as spectral resolution, signal-to-noise ratio, spectral stray light, and so on, based on this setup.

• Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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• v.42 no.11 s.282
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• pp.749-752
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• 2005

When an electric field higher than a characteristic coercive field is applied to a ferroelectric such as $LiNbO_3$, the orientation of the spontaneous polarization is reversed, which causes the reversal of the sign of odd-rank tensor properties such as electro-optic and nonlinear optic coefficients. A fabrication process of insulator and periodic external field assisted poling of a z-cut $LiNbO_3$ have been optimized for a periodic $180^{\circ}$ phase inversion along z-axis. The poling jig and the poling control system, fully controlled by a computer, for high quality and reproducible PPLN fabrication have been devised. Periodically polarization reversed PPLN was adjusted based on the fabricated thickness of insulator. The poling structure of PPLN was observed under a microscope after etching PPLN samples by an etching solution ($HF:HNO_3$ = 1 : 2) for about 15 min.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.577-582
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• 2019

We report on a continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) optimized for mid-infrared emission above 5.0 ㎛. The OPO is based on a magnesium-oxide-doped periodically poled LiNbO₃(MgO:PPLN) crystal with a fan-out grating design. A linear two-mirror cavity resonating both at the pump and signal wavelengths is stabilized to the pump laser by using the modified Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method. The idler wavelength is continuously tunable from 4.7 ㎛ up to 5.3 ㎛ by varying the poling period of the fan-out grating crystal. Pumped by a diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser with a power of 1.1 W at 1064 nm, the maximum idler output power is measured to be 5.3 mW at 4.8 ㎛. The output power above 5.0 ㎛ is reduced to the hundreds of ㎼ level due to increased absorption in the crystal, but is stable and strong enough to be measured with a conventional detector.