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Dry Etching of patternedLiNbO3Waveguides for the High-speed Optical Modulator fabrication (초고속 광변조기 제작을 위한 LiNbO3도파로의 건식식각)

  • 양우석;김우경;이승태;박우정;장현수;윤대호;이한영
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.16 no.8
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    • pp.731-735
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    • 2003
  • Ti-indiffused LiNbO$_3$waveguide have been used to various high speed optical device based on electro-optic effect such as modulators, switches, and sensor, etc. In order to high speed modulation of optical modulator have, one of the further devices, needed to increasing of electrode surrounding air by LiNbO$_3$dry etching because of impedance matching for optical and RF phase velocity between waveguide and electrode. We studied property of LiNbO$_3$dry etching after waveguide patterning lot optical modulation by using neutral loop discharge (NLD) plasma.

An Optical True Time-Delay for Two-Dimensional X-Band Phased Array Antennas (2차원 X-밴드 위상 배열 안테나용 광 실시간 지연선로)

  • Jung, Byung-Min;Kim, Sung-Chul;Shin, Jong-Dug;Kim, Boo-Gyoun
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.287-294
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, an optical true time-delay (TTD) for two-dimensional (2-D) phased array antennas (PAAs), composed of a multi-wavelength optical source and a fiber optic delay line matrix consisting of $2\times2$ optical switches with optical fiber connected between cross ports, has been proposed. A 2-bit $\times4-bit$ optical TTD for 10-GHz 2-D PAAs has been implemented by cascading a wavelength dependent TTD (WD-TTD) and a wavelength independent TTD (WI-TTD). The unit time delay for WD-TTD and WI-TTD have been chosen as ${\Delta}T=12ps$ and $\Delta\tau=6ps$, respectively. Time delay have been measured at all radiation angles. The maximum delay error for WD-TTD was measured to be 3 ps due to jitter incurred from gain switching. For the case of WI-TTD, error was within ${\pm}\;1\;ps$. The proposed optical TTD for a 2-D PAA has the following advantages: 1) higher gain compared to one-dimensional linear PAAs, 2) stabilization of optical power and wavelength by using a multi-wavelength optical source, and 3) fast beam scan and simple operation due to electronic control of the $2\times2$ optical switches matrix on a column-by-column basis.

2×2 Ti:LiNbO3 Waveguide Digital Optical Switches

  • Kim Seung-Jae;Jung, Hong-Sik;Lee, Han-Young
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.253-257
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    • 2003
  • We propose and demonstrate a novel polarization- and wavelength-independent digital electrooptic switch in $Ti:LiNbO_3$ with switching voltage of ${\pm}$32V at $1.55{\mu}m$ wavelength. This $2{\times}2$ integrated optic switch is characterized by a step-like response to the applied voltage. Switching is achieved through adiabatic mode evolution in an asymmetric waveguide junction. An average insertion loss of ∼4.5dB and polarization independent switching with average crosstalk of -12dB are achieved.

3-bit Optical True Time Delay for 10 GHz Phased Array Antennas Composed of Optical 2$\times$2 MEMS Switches and Fiber Delay Lines (2$\times$2 MEMS 스위치와 광섬유지연선로를 이용한 10 GHz 위상배열 안테나용 3-bit 광학적 실시간 지연선로)

  • 이백송;신종덕;김부균
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2003.02a
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    • pp.320-321
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    • 2003
  • 위성통신 및 무선통신에서 안테나의 수신 감도를 향상시키기 위한 노력은 계속되어 왔다. 안테나의 지향성을 높이기 위하여 다수의 동형 단위 안테나들을 일정 방향으로 배열하여 안테나를 기계적으로 회전시키지 않고, 고정된 다수의 동형 단위 안테나들에서 방사되는 전파의 위상을 전자적으로 변화시켜 방사 빔을 주사하는 방법, 즉 위상배열 안테나(Phased Array Antenna)를 널리 사용하고 있다. 위상배열 안테나의 단위 안테나에서 방사되는 전파의 위상을 변화시키기 위해선 실시간 시간지연 시스템이 필요하다. (중략)

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Control of Optical Hysteresis in Block Copolymer Photonic Gels: A Step Towards Wet Photonic Memory Films

  • Kim, Eun-Ju;Gang, Chang-Jun;Jang, Yu-Rim;Senthilkumar, S.;Gang, Yeong-Jong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.279-279
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    • 2010
  • Smart gels have recently associated with photonic crystals to form photonic gels. Since these photonic gels are capable of reversibly converting the volume change of gels induced in response to external chemical or electric stimuli into characteristic optical signals, they have been considered not only as a good platform for label-free chemical or biological detection, actuators or optical switches but also as a good model system to investigate gel swelling behaviour. Recently, we reported block copolymer photonic gels self-assembled from polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinyl pyridine) (PS-b-P2VP) block copolymers, and demonstrated that selective swelling of lamellar structure allows extremely large tunability of the photonic stop band from UV region to IR region ($\lambda$ peak=350~1,600 nm). Herein we report block copolymer photonic gels which exhibit strong tunable optical hysteresis and their applications. As nonlinear responses in swelling of hydrogels were often observed, photonic gels exhibit optical hysteresis with change of external pH. We demonstrate such optical hysteresis can be precisely programmed by controlling ion-pairing affinity. We anticipate that photonic gels with carefully tunned optical hysteresis are applicable to optical memory devices.

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A Study on the Analysis of $1{\times}2$ Polymer Waveguide Thermo-optic switch ($1{\times}2$ 열광학 폴리머 광스위치의 해석에 관한 연구)

  • 곽혁용;김종헌
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.247-251
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    • 1998
  • This work presents the analysis of $1\times2$ polymer waveguide thermo-optic switch using asymmetric Y-splitter at the wavelength of 1300nm. Because of the high thermo-optic coefficient of polymeric materials the design of efficient switches were feasible. For the numerical simulation of these switches the finite difference beam propagation method has been employed. Design rules for a $1\times2$ polymeric switch have been defined by using the numerical techniques.

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A Photonic Packet Switch for Wavelength-Division Mdltiplexed Networks (파장다중 네트워크에 사용될 광 패킷 스위치 구조)

  • 최영복;김해근;주성순;이상화
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.27 no.10C
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    • pp.937-944
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    • 2002
  • The current fast-growing Internet traffic is demanding more and more network capacity. Photonic packet switching offers high-speed, data rate/format transparency, and configurability, which are some of the important characteristics needed in future networks supporting different forms of data. In this paper, we define that optical backbone networks for IP transport consist of optical packet core switches and optical fibers. We propose a multi-link photonic packet switch managing as single media which unifies the whole bandwidth of multiple wavelengths on the optical fiber in the WDM optical networks. The proposed switch uses optical packet memories of output link equally as well as using the WDM buffer. So it cuts down the required number of buffers and realizes of the optical packet memory economically.

Design of Switchable and Reconfigurable Semi-lumped Wideband Bandpass Filter

  • Xiong, Yang;Wang, LiTian;Zhang, Wei;Pang, DouDou;Zhang, Fan;He, Ming
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.756-763
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    • 2017
  • A switchable single-wideband (SWB)-to-dual-wideband (DWB) bandpass filter (BPF), which is realized by using lumped switches, is presented in this paper. By alternating the operation modes-ON and OFF-in which the ON mode is achieved by placing the capacitors at the switching spots and the OFF mode is achieved by replacing the capacitors with inductors, DWB-to-SWB BPF can be achieved on the same device. In addition, by changing the capacitor values, the center frequency (CF) of the lower passband of DWB BPF can be easily tuned from 1.69 GHz to 2.22 GHz, while the higher passband stays almost unchanged. As an example, an SWB-to-DWB BPF is designed, fabricated, and measured. This BPF exhibits good performance including wideband, high isolation, compact size, and ability to switch.

Evaluation of Packet Loss Rate in Optical Burst Switching equipped with Optic Delay Lines Buffer

  • To, Hoang-Linh;Bui, Dang-Quang;Hwang, Won-Joo
    • Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.166-167
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    • 2012
  • High packet loss rate and impatience of messages passing through optical switches are essential characteristics in Optical Burst Switching system equipped with Optic Delay Lines buffer, which have not been solved efficiently yet by current existing models. In order to capture both effects, this paper introduces an analytical model from the viewpoint of classical queuing theory with impatient customers. We then apply it to evaluate and compare two wavelength-sharing cases, (1) all delay lines share a common wavelength resource and (2) each wavelength is associated with a number of delay lines. Our numerical results suggest to implement the first case because of lower packet loss rate for a fairly broad range of traffic load.

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Compact and Temperature Independent Electro-optic Switch Based on Slotted Silicon Photonic Crystal Directional Coupler

  • Aghababaeian, Hassan;Vadjed-Samiei, Mohammad-Hashem
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.282-287
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we have proposed a principle to design a compact and temperature independent electro-optic switch based on a slotted photonic crystal directional coupler (SPCDC). Infiltration of the slotted silicon photonic crystal with polymer enhances the slow light and decreases the switching length, whereas the different signs of thermo-optic coefficients of the polymer and silicon make the proposed switch stable within $25^{\circ}C$ to $85^{\circ}C$ temperature range. The SPCDC structure is modified to increase poling efficiency of the polymer in the slot and to flatten the dispersion diagram of the even mode to minimize the switching length.