Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Shin Young Yoon

Hyun Seo Kang

Sei Hyoung Lee

Seihyoung Lee

Provided are an optical fiber, which has an out-coupling characteristic of high coupling efficiency and is advantageous in terms of size reduction, and an optical signal detecting apparatus, which has a high coupling rate and high degree of integration, using the optical fiber. The optical signal out-coupling optical fiber includes: a core in which a tilted Bragg grating or a long period optical fiber grating is formed; and a cladding that surrounds the core and in which at least one V-groove that totally reflects optical signals is formed, wherein optical signals are out-coupled by using the grating and the V-groove. The optical signal detecting apparatus includes: an optical signal out-coupling optical fiber; and an optical signal receiving device monitoring or detecting optical signals emitted from the optical fiber. The optical signal out-coupling optical fiber has an in-line structure which does not require a complicated external structure, and thus can be made more compact and emit optical signals highly efficiently, and the optical signal detecting apparatus using the optical fiber can monitor or detect optical signals with a high degree of integration and high optical coupling efficiency.

Optical fiber for out-coupling optical signal and apparatus for detecting optical signal using the same optical fiber

The present invention provides a wavelength selective optical focusing device using the cladding-etching of an optical fiber and an optical module using the same. The wavelength selective optical focusing device includes a core for transmitting an optical signal therethrough; and a cladding layer surrounding the core and having a plurality of grooves formed in the outer circumferential surface thereof such that the grooves are changed at a designated rate, wherein an optical signal having a designated wavelength guided by the core is focused to the outside of the cladding layer by the grooves.

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Gwangju, South Korea

Shin Young Yoon