• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2002

In the conventional star coupler, a certain amount of loss should be expected because lateral diffraction is used for the power distribution. In this paper, we propose a new design of a low loss star coupler which employs UV-written tapered waveguides and an AWG based on the low loss star couplers, and investigate their various characteristics. The loss of the UV-written star coupler is lower than that of the conventional star coupler, and the AWG device based on the UV-written star couplers shows low loss characteristics.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.983-986
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• 1998

Inthis paper, we design 4$\times$4 optical star coupler with tapered coupling structure. The 4$\times$4 optical star coupler consists of four 3dB couplers and a 100% coupler with tapered structure. This star coupler is designed by the 2 dimension FD-BPM(finite difference beam propagation method) using TBC(transparent boundary condition). consequently, the maximum power unbalance ratios of relative output power from each of the output waveguides for each of input guides are less than 0.1dB, and the transmission efficiency is more than 99%.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.11c
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• pp.603-604
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• 2000

We investigate the low loss of star coupler which employs UV-written tapered waveguide and apply it to AWG. It exhibits the lower loss due to the gradual increase of the width of the UV-written taper waveguide than the conventional star coupler, which is improved by as much as 0.49dB.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.17-22
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• 2013

High performance plastic optical fiber (POF) $N{\times}N$ star couplers are implemented based on fusing and combining technology. A set of cladding-removed POFs are fused into a solid body by heating and pressing them together to form the transition region between the input and output sides. The operation principle of the proposed star coupler is explained based on ray optics. To demonstrate the performance of the device, $2{\times}2$, $4{\times}4$ and $6{\times}6$ type POF couplers were fabricated and characterized. Performances of the POF star couplers were evaluated in terms of the flatness of the coupling ratios and excess losses.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.893-910
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• 1996

Recently, there ary many researches on local area multichannel network as WDM technology developes. An ideal media access protocol in a multichannel network is one that shows short access delay under low load and high throughput under heavy load. This paper proposed a new media access protocol for WDM passive star coupler network. The proposed one is a random access rpotocol based on reservation. Access delay is short under low load by using random access method, and high throughput is achieved under heavy load by usin greservation access. Analytic model for the performance analysis of the proposed protocol is developed and performance of the proposed protocol is compared with the previous ones. The effect on the performance of the number of the nodes and channels, and the number of transceivers in each node are analyzed.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.21 no.9
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• pp.2526-2532
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• 1996

In this paper, the efficient algorithm for design of waveguide grating router(WGR) composed of star couplers is proposed. It is well demostrated that a star coupler design can be easily adjusted to the optimumstate using the proposed design method, which analyzes relations between various parameters. This method enables designers to estimate the spectral properties of waveguide grating router at the initial design level of the star coupler. A 5*5 WGR with 2.75nm(343GHz) channel spacing is designed using the proposed scheme. The BPM(Beam Propagation Method) simulation results show that the channel spacing of the WGR agrees very well with the design, the excess loss is smaller than 2.5dB, and the crosstalk is less than -21dB.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.72-77
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• 1980

We analyze several problems concerning the operation of the optical feedback prebias control scheme in the loser diode optical transmitter and present a LD simulation circuit as a way of adjusting the component's optimum value without using the Laser - triode. 1.5% light power decrease was observed between the temperature range of $0^{\circ}C$ and 36$^{\circ}C$ in which the total light power of LD was used for feedback loop and fairly good operation was demonstrated when a star coupler was employed as a beamsplitter by which approximately 1% portion of the light power was feedbacked.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.407-412
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• 1998

In this paper, we design PHASAR(Phased Array) WDM(Wavelength Dvision Division Multi- and Demultiplexing) filters and evaluate their performance. The PHASAR WDM filter is designed to have flat-passband characteristics by inserting the multimode waveguides between input waveguides and a first star coupler. BPM simulation results show that the excess loss is smaller than 6.5 dB, the crosstalk is less than -22 dB and the 1 dB passband is about 50 GHz. The effect of the path difference error is also investigated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.11a
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• pp.656-658
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• 1997

AWG designed in this paper is considered with flat passband characteristics in the channel as a method for solving frequency stability problems of the sources in the conventional optical filters. This device can acquire the flat passband characteristics by inserting the multimode wave guides utilizing the self imaging effec between input wave guides and first star coupler. BPM simulation results show that the excess loss is smaller than 6.5 dB, the crosstalk is less than -22 dB and the 1 dB passband is about 50 GHz in the central channel.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10c
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• pp.584-586
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 파장 재사용 이중 단일홉 WDM(Wavelength Division Multiplexing) 통신망에서 전체 노드의 수가 사용 가능한 파장의 수보다 클 경우에 트래픽의 지역성(locality)을 고려하여 시간 분할 다중 접속 (TDMA) 방식으로 파장을 이용하는 다중 접근 알고리즘을 제안한다. 사용 가능한 파장을 그룹내에서 사용하는 전역 파장과 그룹간의 통신에 사용하는 지역 파장으로 나누고 전역 파장은 통신망에 속하는 모든 노드가 공유하고 지역 파장은 그룹내의 노드가 공유한다. 따라서 지역 파장은 모든 그룹 내에서 재사용 가능하기 때문에 전체 파장의 사용율이 증가한다. 모든 노드는 전역파장와 지역 파장으로 동조 가능한 하나의 동조 송신기와 전역 파장 중에 하나의 파장으로 수신 파장이 고정된 고정 수신기와 지역 파장 중에 하나의 파장으로 수신 파장이 고정된 고정 수신기를 가진다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 노드에서 패킷의 전송 요구가 필요한 만큼 슬롯 시간을 할당받아 모든 패킷을 연속해서 전송하는 슬롯 예약 방식을 채택한다. 이 방식은 동조 시간을 최소화함으로써 슬롯 시간을 모드 노드가 균일하게 할당하여 전체 동조 시간이 길어지는 고정 할당 방식보다 파장 사용율이 효율적이다.