Fiber Lasers

& Photonic Device Lab.

Welcome to FLPD!

We are interested in advanced ultrafast fiber lasers/amplification systems, various nonlinear optical phenomena and nano photonic devices based on low dimensional materials such as carbon nanotube (CNT), graphene, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for the applications to the military, display/semiconductor industry and optical communications.

Lab introduction video by Professeor

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아주대학교 FLPD 연구실에서 학부생 인턴을 모집합니다. 저희 연구실에서는 학문적 탐구 뿐만 아니라 통신, 의료, 군사 등 다양한 응용분야로 확장될 수 있는 레이저, 적응 (adaptive), 비선형 및 양자광학 연구를 진행하고 있습니다. 하계방학 동안 가치있는 연구경험을 쌓고 싶은 학생들의 많은 지원 바랍니다.


-모집대상: 학부 3, 4학년


-자세한 사항은 염동일 교수님께 이메일 (diyeom@ajou.ac.kr) 문의바랍니다.



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-양자광학, 레이저 광학 및 비선형 광학 관련 연구에 관심 있는 석사 및 박사 과정 학생을 모집합니다. 관심 있는 학생들은 염동일 교수님에게 이메일 (diyeom@ajou.ac.kr) 주시기 바랍니다.

-We are looking for graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in quantum optics, laser physics and nonlinear optics. Please contact Prof. Dong-Il Yeom by email (diyeom@ajou.ac.kr).

Lab. News 

Jaedeok Park (Ph. D. Student) has been honored with outstanding graduation awards (BTS awards, 에너지시스템학과)!

*BTS: best thesis awards

Attended the Optical Society of Korea Winter Annual Meeting 2024.




이번 학기(23-2학기) 우리 그룹에서 특수연구를 수행한 양지원 학생과 김주환 학생이 연구결과 발표회에서 최우수 및 우수 발표자로 선정되었습니다. 축하합니다! 

- Look at https://physics.ajou.ac.kr/physics/board/board01.jsp?mode=view&article_no=237862&board_wrapper=%2Fphysics%2Fboard%2Fboard01.jsp&pager.offset=0&board_no=323!

이번 학기(23-1학기) 우리 그룹에서 특수연구를 수행한 홍우석 학생이 연구결과 발표회에서 최우수 발표자로 선정되었습니다. 축하합니다! 

- Look at https://physics.ajou.ac.kr/physics/board/board01.jsp?mode=view&article_no=235691&board_wrapper=%2Fphysics%2Fboard%2Fboard01.jsp&pager.offset=0&board_no=323!

Taeyeol Min (Ph. D. Student) got an outstanding student paper award (우수학생논문상) in Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA 2023)!

 - Title: Graded index 다중모드 광섬유에서 공간모드 결합 조건에 따른 라만 광신호 발생 특성 연구

Our recent work was published in Advanced Optical Materials (IF = 10.050, IF (%) = 8.416)!

우리 그룹의 연구 결과가 <어드밴스드 옵티컬 메터리얼즈, IF = 10.050, IF (%) = 8.416> 47일자 온라인판에 게재되었습니다. 

- Title:  Large-Area Structure-Selective Synthesis of Symmetry-Broken MoSe2 and Their Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response

- Look at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adom.202203116!

Seongju Ha (Ph. D. Student) has been honored with outstanding graduation awards (우수논문상 & BTS awards, 에너지시스템학과)!

*BTS: best thesis awards

Yujae Jeong (M. S., 2021-2023) has joined Hanhwa Systems. Congratulations!!

우리 연구실 출신 정유재 연구원 (석사 졸업)이 한화시스템에 최종 합격하였습니다. 축하합니다!!

Our recent work was published in Nanophotonics (IF = 7.923, IF (%) = 10.396)!

우리 그룹의 연구 결과가 <나노포토닉스, IF = 7.923, IF (%) = 10.396> 12월 15일자 온라인판에 게재되었습니다. 

- Title: Electrically controllable diffractive optical elements fabricated by direct laser writing on a carbon nanotube network film

- Look at https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/nanoph-2022-0518/html!

Soyeon Park (Undergraduate student) won an outstanding student presentation award in 2022-1 Capstone Design (Directed research in Physics, Ajou University)!

- Title: Study of nonlinear optical responses in twisted bilayer WS2

- Look at http://physics.ajou.ac.kr/physics/board/board01.jsp?mode=view&article_no=230251&board_wrapper=%2Fphysics%2Fboard%2Fboard01.jsp&pager.offset=0&board_no=323!

Our paper will be highlighted as a supplementary journal cover of ACS Photonics!

우리 그룹의 연구결과가 <ACS Photonics, IF = 7.077, IF (%) = 12.376>의 supplementary journal cover에 선정되었습니다!

- Title: Enhanced Optical Third-Harmonic Generation in Phase-Engineered MoTe2 Thin Films

- Look at https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00222!

국내 유일의 광섬유 센서기술 전문기업 (주)파이버프로에서 2022년도 상반기 부문별 인재를 모집하여 안내합니다. 새로운 개념과 독창적인 기술로 전 세계 유수의 기업들과 연구소에서 파이버프로의 다양한 광계측 및 광센싱 제품들이 사용되고 있습니다. 관심있는 분들의 많은 지원바랍니다.

-모집분야: 광학 엔지니어 (신입 또는 경력) / 영업마케팅 (신입 또는 경력)

-모집기간: 2022년 6월 21일 ~ 2022년 7월 04일

-자세한 사항은 여기를 참고하세요!

 Dr. Nam Hun Park (M.S. & Ph. D., 2014-2020) joined Agency for Defense Development (ADD)! Congratulations!!

우리 연구실 출신 박남훈 박사가 국방과학연구소에 최종합격하였습니다. 축하합니다!!

Prof. Dong-Il Yeom was selected as 'Ajou Top Researcher (2021학년도 연구우수교수)'!

- Look at https://www.ajou.ac.kr/kr/ajou/news.do?mode=view&articleNo=198481&article.offset=48&articleLimit=12!

Mr. Hyunjun Nam, an undergraduate student has been with us for a long time (2017-2022, including the military service 2020-2021), was selected as a photonics scholarship student at the Max Planck Foundation in Germany.  Congratulations!!

우리 연구실에서 오랫동안 함께한 남현준 학부 연구생이 독일 막스플랑크재단 포토닉스 장학생으로 선정되었습니다. 축하합니다!!

Jungseok Choi (M.S. Student) won an outstanding student oral presentation award in 2021 The Korean Physical Society (KPS) fall Meeting!

- Title: Study of second-order optical nonlinearity in twisted few-layer graphene  

        (뒤틀려 적층된 수 층 그래핀에서의 이차 비선형성 연구)

- Look at https://www.ajou.ac.kr/kr/ajou/news.do?mode=view&articleNo=114562

The 1st EX(NL)O BRL workshop was held on June 23, 2021.

제 1회 EX(NL)O BRL 워크샵을 2021년 6월 23일 개최하였습니다. 

  Our group was selected as the "Basic Research Lab. " with  Complex Oxide Physics Lab.,  Computational Quantum Materials Lab., and Optoelectronics & Quantum Materials Laboratory in Ajou university!

과학기술정보통신부 및 한국연구재단 주관 "2021년도 집단연구지원사업 기초연구실 신규 과제" 에 최종 선정되었습니다. 

- 연구실명: 원자수준 계면제어 극한 비선형광학 기초연구실 (Extreme Nonlinear Optics Basic Research Lab. [EX(NL)O BRL])

- Related articles featured in several newspapers:

[중앙일보] https://news.joins.com/article/24074678

[e- 대학저널] https://www.dhnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=141708

[이데일리] https://www.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=02387846629078440&mediaCodeNo=257 

Seongju Ha (Ph. D. Student) won an outstanding student paper award (우수학생논문상) in 20th Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA 2021)!

- Title: Study of enhanced third-order optical nonlinearity by Moire superlattice in twisted bilayer graphene

        (무아레 초격자에 의한 뒤틀린 두 층 그래핀의 증대된 삼차 비선형 광특성 연구)

Our recent work was published in Light: Science & Applications (IF = 13.714, IF (%) = 2.577)!

우리 그룹의 연구 결과가 <빛: 과학과 응용, IF = 13.714, IF (%) = 2.577> 1월 21일자 온라인판에 게재되었습니다. 

- Title: Enhanced third-harmonic generation by manipulating the twist angle of bilayer graphene

- Look at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41377-020-00459-5!


- Related articles featured in several newspapers:

[e-대학저널] https://www.dhnews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=136061

[뉴시스] https://newsis.com/view/?id=NISX20210201_0001325658

[헤럴드경제] http://news.heraldcorp.com/view.php?ud=20210201000730

[경인일보] http://www.kyeongin.com/main/view.php?key=20210201010000011

Prof. Dong-Il Yeom was selected as 'Ajou Top Researcher (2019학년도 연구우수교수)'!

- Look at https://www.ajou.ac.kr/kr/ajou/news.do?mode=view&articleNo=77720&article.offset=144&articleLimit=12!


 Prof. Dong-Il Yeom received '2019 Teaching Award (2019학년도 교육 우수상)' from Ajou university!

- Look at https://www.ajou.ac.kr/kr/ajou/news.do?mode=view&articleNo=77719&article.offset=144&articleLimit=12!

 Seongju Ha (Ph. D. Student) received an outstanding student paper award (우수발표상) in 2019 The Korean Physical Society (KPS) Spring Meeting!

- Title: Study of third-order nonlinear optical response in stacked graphene layer

Prof. Dong-Il Yeom won 9th Haelym-photonic engineering award (해림광자공학상, 제9호) from Optical Society of Korea (OPK)!

Jaedeok Park (M.S. Student) got an outstanding student paper award (우수학생논문상) in Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA 2018)!

- Title: All-fiber Tm-Ho codoped laser operating at 1700nm (1700nm에서 발진하는 전-광섬유 툴륨-홀뮴 첨가 광섬유 레이저)

Seongju Ha (Ph. D. Student) received an outstanding student paper award (우수발표상) in 2018 The Korean Physical Society (KPS) Spring Meeting!

- Title: All-optical fiber modulator assisted by photo-thermal effect in graphene layer (그래핀의 광열효과를 기반으로 한 전광(all-optical) 광섬유 변조기)

Prof. Dong-Il Yeom, Nam Hun Park (Ph. D. Student) and Seongju Ha (M.S. Student) attened and had an oral presentation in  Photonics West 2018 (PW 2018)!

- Title/N.H. Park: All-fiber graphene-based electro-optic modulators with non-resonant large modulation depth

- Title/S. Ha: Highly efficient all-optical in-line modulator assisted by photo-thermal effect in monolayer graphene

 Dr. Hwanseong Jeong (M.S/Ph. D. Integrated course, 2011-2017) joined Agency for Defense Development (ADD)! Congratulations!!

우리 연구실 출신 정환성 박사 (석/박사 통합, 2011-2017)가 국방과학연구소에 최종합격하였습니다. 축하합니다!!


Our group paper was selected as Editors' Picks Collection for significant contributions in Nonlinear Optics for 40th Anniversary!

- Look at https://www.osapublishing.org/ol40/editorspicks_Nonlinear_Optics.cfm!


Nam Hun Park (Ph. D. Student) got an outstanding student paper award (우수학생논문상) in Advanced Lasers and Their Applications (ALTA 2017)!

- Title: All-fiber graphene-based electro-optic modulators with non-resonant large modulation depth 

       (감쇄파의 상호작용 기반의 높은 변조세기를 가지는 그래핀-광섬유 전광 (electro-optic) 변조기)

Hwanseong Jeong (M.S/Ph. D. Integrated Student) and Taekgyu Lee (M.S. Student) won an outstanding student paper award (우수논문상) in Optical Society of Korea Summer Meeting 2016!

- Title/T. Lee: Ultrafast fiber lasers using a graphene saturable absorber on the side-polished polarization maintaining fiber

- Title/H. Jeong: Passively Q-switched normal dispersion high power ytterbium-doped fiber laser (~200mW) based on graphene satuarble absorber (그래핀 포화 흡수체 기반 고출력 (~200 mW) 정상 분산 수동 모드 잠금 이터븀 전광섬유 레이저)

Our latest work was published in Nature Communications !

- Look at https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7851!

Our group paper was selected as most highly cited paper in Optics Letters over the last 7 years!

- Look at https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/fulltext.cfm?uri=ol-33-7-660&id=156154!

*Last updated on 07/04/2023