Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science

Dae-Su Yee

Sung-Bock Kim

Young-Ahn Leem

Dong-Churl Kim

Kyung-Hyun Park

Yong-Soon Baek

Ji Sang Yahng

Kyung Hyun Park

Min Yong Jeon

Eun-Deok Sim

Kyung-Hyun Pakr

Provided is a high-speed 3D imaging system using continuous-wave THz beam scan, and more particularly, a high-speed 3D imaging system using continuous-wave THz beam scan capable of acquiring a 3D image for a sample at a high speed and high precision by measuring a signal reflected from a sample using the continuous-wave THz beam generated from a wavelength-fixed laser and a wavelength-swept laser and having a frequency varying at a high speed to obtain depth direction information on a sample and performing a 2D scan on the sample using a THz beam scanner.

High-speed 3D imaging system using continuous-wave THz beam scan

Provided is an apparatus for real-time non-contact non-destructive thickness measurement using a terahertz wave, and more particularly, an apparatus for real-time non-contact non-destructive thickness measurement using a terahertz wave, which is capable of measuring a thickness of a sample by irradiating a terahertz continuous wave, which is generated from a wavelength-fixed laser and a wavelength-swept laser and of which the frequency is changed at a high speed, to the sample and measuring the terahertz wave transmitting or reflected from the sample.

Apparatus for real-time non-contact non-destructive thickness measurement using terahertz wave

Provided is a terahertz wave apparatus. The terahertz wave apparatus includes: a wavelength-fixed laser emitting a first laser light having a fixed first wavelength; a wavelength-swept laser emitting a second laser light having a tunable second wavelength; a coupler coupling the first laser light with the second laser light; and a generator converting a mixed light emitted from the coupler into a terahertz wave, wherein a frequency of the terahertz wave is continuously tunable.

Terahertz wave apparatus

A multi-section semiconductor laser diode is disclosed. The laser diode includes a complex-coupled DFB laser section that includes a complex-coupled grating and an active structure for controlling the intensity of oscillating laser light, to oscillate laser light in a single mode, and an external cavity including a phase control section and an amplifier section, the phase control section having a passive waveguide that controls a phase variation of feedback laser light, the amplification section having an active structure that controls the strength of the feedback laser light. Currents are separately provided to the three sections to generate optical pulses with tuning range of tens of GHz. Applications include the clock recovery in the 3R regeneration of the optical communication.

Self-mode locked multi-section semiconductor laser diode

A multi DFB laser diode for generating spontaneous pulses comprises first and second DFB sections each of which has a substrate including a diffraction grating, an active layer formed on the substrate, a clad layer formed on the active layer and including a refraction varying layer, and an electrode formed on the active layer; and a phase tuning section including a substrate, an active layer formed on the substrate, a clad layer formed on the active layer, and an electrode isolated from the electrode of the first and second DFB sections. The refraction varying layer in the active layer of the first DFB section has a refractive index different from that of the refraction varying layer in the active layer of the second DFB section.

Multi DFB laser diode

Disclosed is a high frequency optical pulse source generating stable optical pulses over a wide current range in an optical transmission system to enhance stability and reliability, the high frequency optical pulse source implementing, in one chip, a multi-section distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode with a phase control section arranged between two DFB laser diodes. By controlling the current applied to the electrode of the phase control section while applying currents to the first and second DFB sections, the present invention causes self-mode locking between the compound-cavity modes having similar threshold currents, thereby generating stable tens GHz-level optical pulses. Hence, the present invention generates optical pulses uniformly over a wide current range, thereby enhancing the stability and reliability of the element.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Dae-Su Yee