• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.163-169
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• 2010

Novel wafer-level fabrication of a glass ball-lens is realized for optoelectronic applications. A Pyrex wafer is bonded to a silicon wafer and cross-cut into a square-tile pattern, followed by wet-etching of the underlying silicon. Cubes of Pyrex on the undercut silicon are then turned into ball shapes by thermal reflow, and separated from the wafer by further etching of the silicon support. Radial variation and surface roughness are measured to be less than ${\pm}3\;{\mu}m$ and ${\pm}1\;nm$, respectively, for ball diameter of about $500\;{\mu}m$. A surface defect on the ball that is due to the silicon support is shown to be healed by using a silicon-optical-bench. Optical power-relay of the ball lens showed the maximum efficiency of 65% between two single-mode fibers on the silicon-optical-bench.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 2008

In this paper, we describe the fabrication process and the characteristics of polarization maintaining photonic crystal fibers (PM-PCFs). The PM-PCF is fabricated by stack-and-draw method, i.e., stacking silica capillary tubes (making a PM-PCF preform) and drawing to optical fiber. Firstly, a PM-PCF preform is formed by stacking two kinds of capillary tubes around a solid silica rod and jacketing these stacked tubes with an outer silica tube (out-jacket tube). Later, the desired preform is drawn to a fiber in a high temperature drawing tower. We also compare the polarization properties such as polarization dependent loss, birefringence, and differential group delay of the fabricated PM-PCF with those of the conventional PANDA PM fiber.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.327-333
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• 2015

This paper reports the fabrication of various micro-lensed single-mode optical fibers through the use of an enhanced peak power $CO_2$ laser beam. The end faces of the optical fibers are exposed to the $CO_2$ laser beam to form convex, concave, and conical shape optical fiber tips. Peak power of the $CO_2$ laser beam was varied from 0.8 W to 1.5 W depending on the shape of the optical fiber tip. We also discover the dependence of the angle of the optical fiber tip on the rotation angle and the number of $CO_2$ laser irradiations. The angle shows an increasing trend with both these parameters. We achieve a wide range of lenticular fibers with end face angle varying from $4.47^{\circ}$ to $8.13^{\circ}$. Furthermore, we investigate the emission pattern of light from the developed micro-lensed fibers. The proposed $CO_2$ laser based optical fiber reshaping technique shows great consistency, and thus is suitable for commercial applications.

• Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2006

An optical ROM card system which using an optical probe array generated by Talbot effect was proposed as new robust storage solution. To improve the optical density and to decrease the power consumption of the system, it is very important to make the spot sizes of optical probes smaller as well as to increase the optical efficiency from the light source to optical probes. In this study, a microlens illuminated aperture array for generating high efficiency optical probe away with small beam spot was designed and fabricated using monolithic lithography integration method. The maximum intensity of optical probes of microlens illuminated aperture array increased about 12 times of that of aperture array, and the full width half maximum of the optical probe at Talbot plane generated by microlens illuminated aperture array was $0.77{\mu}m$.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.141-142
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1990.02a
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• pp.232-236
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• 1990

Optical waveguide was fabricated in the soda lime glass substrate using rapid thermal method. A chirped grating having period variation of 0.41 - 0.51${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ on this waveguide for WDM was made. And then, arranging input and output optical fiber, wavelength division multiplexer with 5 channels in short wavelength region was realized. Experiment result of this WDM showed that wavelength spacing, 3 dB bandwidth, insertion loss and crosstalk were 5nm, 4nm, 40dB and less than -10dB, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.178-179
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• 2002

최근에 화학, 임상병리, 환경 감시 등의 분야에서 산소센서의 수요가 점차 증가하고 있다. 이러한 산소 센서 중에 가장 많이 쓰이는 방식은 산화물 전극을 사용하는 amperometric 방법이지만 이 방법들은 장기간에 걸쳐 볼 때 산화물 전극의 오염, 외부 자기장의 간섭 등의 제점 때문에 산소를 측정하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. (1) 따라서 최근에는 빛과 유기염료를 통하여 산소의 농도가 증가할수록 세기가 quenching이 되는 원리를 이용한 산소센서의 연구가 이루어졌다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.07a
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• pp.48-49
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• 2002

현재 세계의 통신업계들은 인터넷, 멀티미디어 서비스 등의 발전에 따라 폭발적인 전송 속도의 증가를 예측하고 있다. 대용량의 정보를 초고속으로 전달하기 위한 방법으로 각광 받고 있는 광통신은 사무실의 네트웍, 가정의 전자용품, 항공기내 정보시스템 구축, 인터넷 화상 통신 등에 이용되고 있다. 최근에는 플라스틱 광섬유(POF; plastic optical fiber)에 관한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 기존의 구리 전선이 가지는 단점인 전자기적 간섭과 무거운 중량을 극복한 것이 유리 광섬유이다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.124-125
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• 2004

Eu$^{2+}$ doped optical fibers were developed for magneto-optical application by use of CO gas as a reduction agent during MCVD process and the Verdet constant of the Eu$^{2+}$ doped fiber was found to be -0.819[rad/T ${\cdot}$ m], which is three times larger than that of the Eu$^{3+}$ doped fiber.

• Proceedings of the Korean Ceranic Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.231.1-231
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• 2003