• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.47-52
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• 2013

A novel architecture to reduce dramatically the coupling length of multimode interference-based couplers (MMICs) is proposed by replacing conventionally designed MMICs by cascaded two-section plasmonic stepped MMICs (PS-MMIC). For the 60% cross power splitting ratio in a stepped-width MMIC, the coupling length of device results in around 42% length reduction. Furthermore, the power splitting ratio and coupling length of plasmonic MMIC just vary around 1~2% along the variation of refractive index. On the contrast, those factors for the variation of MMIC's width strongly vary around 30~40%.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.14-19
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• 2010

In this paper, a novel architecture for device miniaturization of multimode interference-based couplers (MMICs) is proposed by replacing conventionally designed MMICs by cascaded two-section stepped-width or stepped-index MMICs. For the 82% cross coupling efficiency in a stepped-width MMIC, the coupling length of device results in just 6.7% length reduction. However, for a stepped-width and stepped-index MMIC, the coupling efficiency increases to 93% and the length reduction of 9% occurs. Furthermore, with additional incorporation of tapered devices, it shows that a compact MMIC can be designed in which the coupling efficiency is 90% and the length is reduced to 25%.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.143-148
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• 2013

A novel ultracompact polarization beam-splitter (PBS) combining two plasmonic multimode interference couplers (P-MMICs) and DFB guiding structure is implemented. The $2{\times}1$ and $1{\times}2$ P-MMICs are designed to collect the polarized powers of TE and TM modes reflected by or transmitted through an internal DFB structure. The simulation results show that the designed DFB-assisted PBS is very short (about $75{\mu}m$), and has a low insertion loss, a high extinction ratio, and a broad bandwidth of 20 nm.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.41-47
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• 2009

We report the spectral characteristics of Multimode Interferometer (MMI)-coupled semicondoctor square ring resonators. The epitaxial layers of the proposed semiconductor ring resonator consists of $1.55{\mu}m$ GaInAsP-InP multiple quantum wells. The lasing characteristics were observed by varying the structure parameters of the MMI-coupled square ring resonators. It is concluded that the MMI-coupled scheme selects a single spectral lasing mode in the double square ring cavities.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.469-474
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• 2006

A $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch with small excess loss using multimode interference(MMI) couplers is designed, fabricated, and measured. This paper introduces the proposed $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch, and discusses the measurement results. The $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch is farmed as 4-stage which consists of 15 unit devices. The unit devices are the $2{\times}2$ thermo-optic switches with Mach-Zehnder interferometer(MZI) structure. The characteristics of the $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch depends strongly on each unit device. The unit deviceconsists of two 3-dB general interference MMI couplers and two single mode waveguide arms as a phase shifter. First of all, the 3-dB optical splitter and $2{\times}2$ MZI thermo-optic switch have been tested to confirm the characteristics of the unit devices of the $1{\times}16$ MZI thermo-optic switch. Using the measurement results of the unit devices, the $1{\times}16$ MZI thermo-optic switch can be produced with better characteristics. The resultant structure of the MMI coupler with the optical light source of wavelength of 1550nm for the $1{\times}16$ thermo-optic switch is that the width and the optimized length are $25{\mu}m\;and\;1580{\mu}m$, respectively. The smallest excess loss fur the unit device is -0.5dB and the average excess loss is -0.7dB.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.157-161
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• 2012

This work reports the stability of the resonant characteristics in multimode interferometer coupled square ring semiconductor cavities. Based on the analysis of single square ring cavities, the single mode operations in the multimode interferometer coupled ring cavities are analyzed and the devices are demonstrated on the semiconductor multiple quantum well epitaxial structure. By varying the lasing conditions such as substrate temperature and input pump power, single resonant mode operations are also observed.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.418-422
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• 2000

In this paper, we have modeled and fabricated a mutimode interference (MMI) $1\times4$ optical power splitter using finite-difference beam propagation method and $Ag^+-Na^+$ ion-exchanged method in BK7 glass. The power splitting ratio of the fabricated MMI $1\times4$ optical power splitter shows 0.46 dB..46 dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.34-42
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• 2001

The 1${\times}$2, 1${\times}$4 and 1${\times}$8 multimode interference(MMI) optical power splitters are fabricated by using $Ag^+-Na^+$ ion exchange on BK7 glass. Before fabricating the MMI optical power splitters, we find the refractive index of the channel waveguide and calculate the multimode section length and width. The multimode section lengths and widths are 887${\mu}m$, 1666${\mu}m$ and 1834${\mu}m$ and 40${\mu}m$, 80${\mu}m$ and 120${\mu}m$ for 1${\times}$2, 1${\times}$4 and 1${\times}$8 MMI optical power splitters respectively. The measured properties of the fabricated MMI optical power splitters show that the unbalance ratios of the 1${\times}$2, 1${\times}$4 and 1${\times}$8 MMI optical power splitters are 1.4[dB], 1.7[dB] and 2.0[dB] and the excess losses of those sre 0.96[dB], 2.26[dB] and 1.67[dB]. respectively.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.305-308
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• 2000

In this paper, the 7${\times}$7 MMI Multiplexer is designed. The 1${\times}$7 Splitter and the 7${\times}$7 Coupler are designed and the phase-matched away length is determined. Then this result is confirmed by the simulation considering the intermode coupling. The MMI Multiplexer has The 14nm operating wavelength region, the 2nm wavelength spacing and the 1${\times}$3$\textrm{mm}^2$ size.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.160-161
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• 2000

BK7 glass 기판에 Ag$^{+}$-$Na^{+}$ 이온교환법을 이용하여 Y-분리기를 제작하였다. Y-분리기는 하나의 입력으로 입사되는 광파워를 두 개의 출력단으로 분리하거나 합하는 기능을 수행하는 가장 기본적인 소자로서 이온 교환법을 이용하여 0.2dB/cm 이하의 전송손실을 유지할 수 있다. 또한 MMI (multimode interference)가 갖는 파장에 의존적인 동작 특성과는 달리 사용 파장에 덜 의존적으로 광 신호를 분기시킬 수 있다$^{(1-3)}$ . (중략)