Bragg fibers, consisting of a low index core (including air) surrounded by a series of periodic layers of alternate high and low refractive index materials, each being higher than that of the core, form a 1D photonic bandgap (PBG). In view of the multitude of individual physical parameters that characterize a Bragg fiber, they offer a wide choice of parametric avenues to tailor their propagation characteristics. Owing to their unique PBG guidance mechanism, Bragg fibers indeed exhibit unusual dispersion characteristics that are otherwise nearly impossible to achieve in conventional silica fibers. Solid core Bragg fibers, amenable to fabrication by the highly mature MCVD technology, could be designed to realize broadband supercontinuum light. This talk would review our recent works on modeling of propagation characteristics, dispersion tailoring in them for applications as metro as well as dispersion compensating fibers and also as supercontinuum light generators.

We present a new binary data encryption and transmission technique based on 4-step phase-shifting interferometry for a security system. Phase-shifting interferometry is used for recording phase and amplitude information on CCD device. 4-step phase-shifting is implemented by moving the PZT mirror with equidistant phase steps of ${\pi}/2$. The basic idea is that we reuse a 256 gray-level digital hologram to encrypt binary data with 4-step phase-shifting interferometry.

In this paper, a novel waveguide analysis is addressed based on the rigorous coupled wave analysis method. Using the proposed method, we can analyze half-infinite waveguide structures rigorously calculate.

광대역 증폭기의 개발과 아울러 고출력 광섬유 레이저의 개발이 다양하게 이루어지고 있는 가운데,$^{[1]}$ 특히 유도 라만 산란특성을 이용한 광섬유 레이저가 지속적으로 개발되고 있다.$^{[2]}$phosphosilicate 광섬유를 이득 매질로 하여 저가의 광섬유 레이저를 구현하는가 하면$^{[3][4]}$, 게르마늄 도핑 광섬유를 이득 매질로 한 고효율의 광섬유 레이저가 꾸준히 개발되고 있으며,$^{[5]}$ 다파장 레이저의 개발 등의 여러 가지 광섬유 레이저 개발 가능성의 폭을 확장시키고 있다. 본 논문에서는 위의 선행 기술을 바탕으로 게르마늄 광섬유를 이용한5차 연쇄 라만 공진기를 구성하여,실제 라만 광섬유 증폭기에 적용한 발진 파장, 1445 nm 인 레이저를 구현하고, 그 특성을 논의하였다.

We have investigated the wavelength tuning characteristics due to the vernier effect of coupled-ring reflector laser diode including active region within resonators using time-domain modeling. It is shown that the wavelength can be widely tuned with side mode suppression ratio more than 30dB by adjusting the refractive index difference between mismatched rings.

We propose a method of encryption and decryption of binary data using 2-step phase-shifting digital interferometry. This technique reduces the number of interferograms in the phase-shifting interferometry. The binary data has been expressed with random code and random phase. We remove the dc-term of the phase-shifting digital interferogram to restore the original binary data. Simulation results shows that the proposed technique can be used for binary data encryption and decryption.

Functional photoacoustic tomography is a new non-invasive imaging modality, and it is emerging as a very practical method for imaging biological tissue structures by means of laser-induced ultrasound. Structures with high optical absorption, such as blood vessels, can be imaged with the spatial resolution of ultrasound, which is not limited by the strong light scattering in biological tissues. By varying wavelengths of the laser light and acquiring photoacoustic images, optical absorption spectrum of each image pixel is found. Since the biochemical constituents of tissues determine the spectrum, useful functional information like oxygen saturation ($SO_2$) and total haemoglobin concentration (HbT) can be extracted. In this study, as a proof-of-principle experiment, hypoxic brain tumor vasculature and traumatic brain injury (TBI) of small animal brain are imaged with functional photoacoustic tomography. High resolution brain vasculature images of oxygen saturation and total hemoglobin concentration are provided to visualize hypoxic tumor vasculature, and hemorrhage on the cortex surface by the TBI.

A 10Mbps optical wireless link using LED array has been demonstrated. The modulation bandwidth of the LED has been measured, and the transmission test according to modulation frequency has been also carried out. The good communication performance has been obtained at about 30cm distance at 10Mbps data rate.

This paper physically demonstrates that our proposed method improves the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) of significantly increase the number of acceptable optical signals in PON(Passive Optical Network) systems. This method reduced Optical Beat Interference(OBI) by using CDMA.