Bumki Min
KAIST 물리학과 · 물리·천문학
Bumki Min 교수의 연구실은 광학 및 메타물질 분야에서 활발한 연구를 수행하고 있습니다. 주요 연구 방향은 탄소 나노소재(그래핀 포함)를 활용한 전기적 제어가 가능한 메타표면, 초고품질 광학 공진기(토이로이드 및 미세구리 구조)를 활용한 레이저 및 라만 레이징, 그리고 시간 주기적 광학 시스템에서의 비헤르미트안 밴드 구조 탐구입니다. 특히, 응용 중심의 기초 연구를 통해 고성능 광소자 및 새로운 광학 기반 기술의 구현을 목표로 하고 있습니다.
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Abstract Although recent progress in metasurfaces has shown great promise for applications, optical properties in metasurfaces are typically fixed by their structural geometry and dimensions. Here, an electrically controllable amplitude of anomalously‐refracted waves in a hybrid graphene/metasurface system are experimentally demonstrated, which consists of an artificially constructed two‐dimensional metallic apertures array and naturally occurring two‐dimensional carbon atoms (graphene) in the s
Cascaded Raman Stokes lasing in an ultrahigh-Q silica microsphere resonator coupled to a tapered fiber is demonstrated and analyzed. With less than 900 microW of pump power near 980 nm, five cascaded Stokes lasing lines are generated. In addition, a threshold power of 56.4 microW for the first-order Stokes lasing is achieved. The Stokes lasing lines exhibit distinct characteristics depending on their order, as predicted by theoretical analysis.
Metamaterials, artificially constructed structures that mimic lattices in natural materials, have made numerous contributions to the development of unconventional optical devices. With an increasing demand for more diverse functionalities, terahertz (THz) metamaterials are also expanding their domain, from the realm of mere passive devices to the broader area where functionalized active THz devices are particularly required. A brief review on THz metamaterials is given with a focus on research c
Lasing from an erbium-doped high-$Q$ silica toroidal microcavity coupled to a tapered optical fiber is demonstrated and analyzed. Average erbium ion concentrations were in the range $0.009\text{--}0.09\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{at.}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}%$, and a threshold power as low as $4.5\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{W}$ and an output lasing power as high as $39.4\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{W}$ are obtained from toroidal cavities with
Chemically synthesized nanocrystal, CdSe∕ZnS (core/shell), quantum dots are coated on the surface of an ultrahigh-Q toroidal microcavity and the lasing is observed at room and liquid nitrogen temperature by pulsed excitation of quantum dots, either through tapered fiber or free space. Use of a tapered fiber coupling substantially lowered the threshold energy when compared with the case of free space excitation. The reason for the threshold reduction is attributed to the efficient delivery of pum
Periodically driven systems are ubiquitously found in both classical and quantum regimes. In the field of photonics, these Floquet systems have begun to provide insight into how time periodicity can extend the concept of spatially periodic photonic crystals and metamaterials to the time domain. However, despite the necessity arising from the presence of nonreciprocal coupling between states in a photonic Floquet medium, a unified non-Hermitian band structure description remains elusive. We exper
A controllable and reversible transition between parametric and Raman oscillations in an ultrahigh-Q silica toroidal microcavity is experimentally demonstrated and theoretically analyzed. By direct change of cavity loading and indirect adjustment of frequency detuning, parametric and/or Raman oscillation can be accessed selectively without modification of cavity geometry in a toroidal microcavity with a large enough aspect ratio. Based on an effective cavity gain theory, this transition is analy
A perturbation theoretic approach is proposed as an efficient characterization tool for a tapered fiber coupled ultrahigh-quality factor $(Q)$ toroidal microcavity with a small inverse aspect ratio. The Helmholtz equation with an assumption of quasi-TE/TM modes in local toroidal coordinates is solved via a power series expansion in terms of the inverse aspect ratio and the expanded eigenmode solutions are further manipulated iteratively to generate various characteristic metrics of the ultrahigh
Photonic crystals have revolutionized the field of optics with their unique dispersion and energy band gap engineering capabilities, such as the demonstration of extreme group and phase velocities, topologically protected photonic edge states, and control of spontaneous emission of photons. Time-variant media have also shown distinct functionalities, including nonreciprocal propagation, frequency conversion, and amplification of light. However, spatiotemporal modulation has mostly been studied a
Abstract Terahertz radiation and its nonlinear optical manipulation may possess potential for a variety of applications in next‐generation electronics and optics. Pioneering studies have shown that the nonlinearity of carrier drift in semiconductors and graphene can be utilized for nonlinear optical processes at terahertz frequencies. However, because of the symmetric response of carriers to the terahertz field direction, most experiments have confirmed only the presence of odd‐order nonlinear p