• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.382-387
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• 2014

An all-reflective, simple noncollinear second harmonic (SH) autocorrelator is described for monitoring the shot-to-shot behavior of ultrashort high-power laser pulses. Two mirrors are used for the dispersion-free splitting of a pulse into two halves. One of the mirrors is able to adjust the delay time and angle between two halves of the laser pulse in a nonlinear crystal. We present the possibility of real-time measurement of the pulse duration, peak intensity (or energy), and the pointing jitters of a laser pulse, by analyzing the spatial profile of the SH autocorrelation signal measured by a CCD camera. The measurement of the shot-to-shot variation of those parameters will be important for the detailed characterization of laser accelerated electrons or protons.

• 한국신재생에너지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신재생에너지학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.60.2-60.2
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• 2011

A study of the non-linear optical properties of nanocrystal-Si embedded in SiO2 has been performed by using the z-scan method in the nanosecond and femtosecond ranges. Substoichiometric SiOx films were grown by plasma-enhanced chemical-vapor deposition(PECVD) on silica substrates for Si excesses up to 24 at/%. An annealing at $1250^{\circ}C$ for 1 hour was performed in order to precipitate nanocrystal-Si, as shown by EFTEM images. Z-scan results have shown that, by using 5-ns pulses, the non-linear process is ruled by thermal effects and only a negative contribution can be observed in the non-linear refractive index, with typical values around $-10-10cm^2/W$. On the other hand, femtosecond excitation has revealed a pure electronic contribution to the nonlinear refractive index, obtaining values in the order of 10-12 cm2/W. Simulations of heat propagation have shown that the onset of the temperature rise is delayed more than half pulse-width respect to the starting edge of the excitation. A maximum temperature increase of ${\Delta}T=123.1^{\circ}C$ has been found after 3.5ns of the laser pulse maximum. In order to minimize the thermal contribution to the z-scan transmittance and extract the electronic part, the sample response has been analyzed during the first few nanoseconds. By this method we found a reduction of 20% in the thermal effects. So that, shorter pulses have to be used obtain just pure electronic nonlinearities.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.200-204
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• 2008

Coherent tunable terahertz generation was demonstrated in periodically poled stoichiometric lithium tantalate crystal via difference frequency generation of femtosecond laser pulses. Simultaneous forward and backward terahertz radiations were obtained around 1.35 and 0.63 THz, respectively at low temperature. By cooling the crystal to reduce losses caused by phonon absorptions, the generated THz bandwidth was as narrow as 23GHz at the center frequency of 0.63 THz. The measurement result of temperature-dependent showed gradual intensity increase of the generated terahertz pulse and red shift of the center frequency as the temperature decrease from 291 to 143 K, but insignificant reduction of the spectral bandwidth. Furthermore, the stoichiometric crystal was very suitable for the suppression of THz loss at low temperature compared to the congruent $LiNbO_3$ crystal.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.209-213
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• 1991

최근들어 극초단 광학펄스를 생성하고 증폭하는 기술의 발달로 인하여 시분해 레이저 분광학에 많은 영향을 끼치게 되었다. 그 중에서도 응용성이 넓은 순간흡수분광학장치를 본 연구실에서 개발하였다. 이 기술은 고출력 레이저 펄스를 이용하여 white light continuum pulse를 생성시켜 이를 조사빔으로 이용하고, pump pulse는 원래 상태의 레이저를 이용하는 것이다. 순간흡수율 변화를 여러 파장에서 측정가능하도록 photodiode array를 이용하였으며, pump와 probe pulse의 시간차이에 의한 순간흡수율 변화를 색소의 일종인 DDI를 이용하여 측정하였다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권10호
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• pp.927-933
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 전자 소자 기반의 상용 오실로스코프에 의한 기존의 펄스 신호 측정 방법의 주파수 한계를 극복하기 위하여 전기광학 기반의 측정 방법을 기술하였다. 펄스폭 0.1 ps의 펨토초 레이저와 광다이오드를 사용하여 20 GHz 주파수 범위에 대응되는 전자기 펄스를 발생시키고, 마이크로스트립 선로를 통해 전송되는 전자기 펄스를 검출하기 위하여 전기광학 샘플링 기법을 이용하였다. 마이크로스트립 선로 위의 매우 근접한 거리에서 광학 결정 프로브를 이용하여 비접촉식으로 펄스 신호를 검출하고, 선로의 출력단 펄스 신호를 기존의 오실로스코프로 측정하여 두 측정 결과를 서로 비교하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.219-224
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• 2001

주파수 위상 간섭계를 이용한 전기장 재구성 방법(SPIDER)을 이용하여 Kerr 렌즈 모드록킹된 티타늄 사파이어 레이저 공진기에서 생성된 펨토초 영역의 극초단 펄스의 펄스폭과 위상을 측정하였다. 8cm 길이의 SF10 매질과 마이켈슨형의 시간지연암(arm)을사용하여 주파수 층밀림(shearing)을 구현하고 제2종 BBO결정으로 합주파수 발생을 시켜 SPIDER 장치를 구성 하였다 얻어진 층밀림 주파수 간섭 신호로부터 SPIDER 알고리즘을 이용하여 펄스의 전기장을 복원하였다 SPIDER의 정확도를 확인하기 위해 SPIDER에서 얻은 펄스로 재구성한 간섭형 자체상솬신호를 직접 측정한 간섭형 자체상관 신호와 비교하였다. SPIDER를 티타늄 사파이어 레이저 공진기에 적용하여 19fs의 펄스폭을 얻었으며 sech$^2$나 가우시안으로 가정한 간섭형 자체상관의 결과는 이보다 작은 값으로 나타나서 펨토초 레이저의 정확한 펄스폭 측정을 위해서는 펄스모양의 가정이 필요없는 SPIDER 방법이 필요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.142-147
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• 1995

광섬유 loop mirror를 사용하여 수동형 모우드 록킹된 '8'자 고리형 erbium 첨가 광섬유 레이저로부터 솔리톤 광펄스 출력을 얻었다. 광섬유 loop mirror는 loop내의 한쪽 끝에 erbium 첨가 광섬유를 포함하는 증폭형 loop mirror 형태로 구성되었으며 비선형 매질로서 길이 504m의 분산천이 광섬유가 사용되었다. 파장 $1.48{\mu}m$의 반도체레이저로 펌핑하고 공진기내 편광조절기를 조절함으로써 공진기 일주시간에 해당하는 기본주기로 반복되는 솔리톤 펄스군을 얻을 수 있었다. 솔리톤 펄스군은 중심파장 1574nm, 파장폭 1.2nm로 나타났으며 기본주기내에서 임의 시간간격의 펄스패턴을 가지고 있었다. 자기상관계를 이용하여 2.4ps의 펄스 폭을 측정하였는데 이는 이론에 의한 예측치와 거의 일치하는 값이다. 또한 펄스폭과 주파수 대역폭의 곱이 0.348로서 transform limit에 가까운 펄스임을 알 수 있었다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.13-16
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• 2003

In this work, we have studied about an RSFQ (Rapid Single Flux Quantum) switch element. The circuit was designed, simulated, and laid out for mask fabrication. The switch cell was composed of a D flip-flop, a splitter, a confluence buffer, and a switch core. The switch core determined if the input data could pass to the output. “On” and o“off” controls in the switch core could be possible by utilizing an RS flip-flop. When a control pulse was input to the “on” port, the RS flip-flop was in the set state and passed the input pulses to the output port. When a pulse was input to the “off” port, the RS flip-flop was in the reset state and prevented the input pulses from transferring to the output port. We simulated and optimized the switch element circuit by using Xic, WRspice, and Julia. The minimum circuit margins in simulations were more than $\pm$20%. We also performed the mask layout of the circuit by using Xic and Lmeter.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.190-196
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• 2006

Transparent materials are widely used in the fields of optic parts and bio industry. We have experiment to find out the characteristics of the micromachining inside transparent materials using femtosecond laser pulses. With its non-linear effects by very high peak intensity, filament (plasma channel) was formed by the cause of the self-focusing and the self-defocusing. Physical damage could be found when the intensity is high enough to give rise to the thermal stress or evaporation. At the vicinity of the power which makes the visible damage or modification, the structural modification occurs with the slow scanning speed. According to the polarization direction to the scanning direction, the filament quality is quite different. There is a good quality when the polarization direction is parallel to the scanning direction. For fine filament, we could suggest the conditions of the high numerical aperture lens, the short shift of focusing point, the low scanning speed and the low power below 20 mW. As the examples of optics parts, we fabricated the fresnel zone plate with the $225{\mu}m$ diameter and Y-bend optical wave guide with the $5{\mu}m$ width.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.407-412
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• 2022

We report on a diode-laser-pumped mode-locked Yb:KGW laser system, which delivers ultrashort pulses down to 89 fs at a repetition rate of 63 MHz, with an average power of up to 5.6 W. A fiber-coupled diode laser at 981 nm, operated with a compact driver, is used to optically pump the gain crystal via an off-axis parabolic mirror. A semiconductor saturable-absorber mirror is used to initiate the pulsed operation. Laser characteristics such as the pulse duration, spectrum bandwidth, and output power are investigated by varying the intracavity dispersions via changing the number of bounces between negative-dispersive mirrors within the cavity. Short pulses with a duration of 89 fs, a center wavelength of 1,027 nm, and 3.6 W of output power are produced at a group-velocity dispersion (GVD) of -3,300 fs². As the negative GVD increases, the pulse duration lengthens but the output power at the single-pulse condition can be enhanced, reaching 5.6 W at a GVD of -6,600 fs². Because of pulse broadening at high negative GVDs, the highest peak intensity is achievable at a moderate GVD with our system.