Abstract: Embodiments relate to a polymer waveguide including a substrate, a cladding layer made of a first polymer, formed on the substrate, wherein a first monomer is polymerized into the first polymer, and the cladding layer has a groove for the waveguide by removing part of the cladding layer, and a core accommodating graphene therein, formed on the groove, a method for manufacturing the same, and a passively mode-locked laser based on the polymer waveguide.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical device structure including an optical fiber including a core part, a clad part, and a three-dimensional micro hole structure in the clad part, wherein a surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure is provided with at least a non-flat surface, and a conformal graphene layer is formed on the surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an optical device structure including an optical fiber including a core part, a clad part, and a three-dimensional micro hole structure in the clad part, wherein a surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure is provided with at least a non-flat surface, and a conformal graphene layer is formed on the surface of the three-dimensional micro hole structure, and a method of manufacturing the same.

Abstract: Provided is a smart contact lens for non-invasive drug delivery including a platform configured to be worn on an eye, a reservoir installed within the platform, and having a receiving part in which a drug is received, to provide the eye with the drug, an electrode for iontophoresis installed in the reservoir to make iontophoresis work, to provide the eye with the drug from the reservoir, and an activation chip electrically connected to the electrode for iontophoresis to activate iontophoresis.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a resonator including a graphene layer formed on a support, and a tapered fiber disposed around at least part of the support, close to the graphene layer, wherein the tapered fiber has different paths along which light travels in a region extending from one end and a region extending from the other end, and a passive-mode-locked pulse laser oscillation system including the same.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to an optical sensor for sensing hydrogen gas, which includes an optical fiber through which light moves; a ferrule formed at one end of the optical fiber to surround the optical fiber; and a sensor module configured to form an interference wave according to a Fabry-Perot interferometer with respect to light that moves through the optical fiber, wherein the sensor module includes a sensing material that expands and contracts by reacting with hydrogen gas, and spectrum periodicity of the interference wave changes according to a volume change of the sensing material, and a hydrogen gas detection system including the optical sensor.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a noise suppressor for suppressing noise of an optical signal, including a core through which the optical signal travels, a clad that is wrapped around the core and configured to expose part of the core, and a graphene layer formed on the part of the core, and a digital optical signal generation system including the same.

Abstract: A tear collection device comprises: a body attached to an eyeball; a tear inlet for allowing tear to flow into the body; a storing space formed inside the body and capable of storing the tears having flowed into the body; and a pump forming a pressure difference inside the body such that tears flow into the body through the tear inlet, wherein the pump is driven by using, as power, eye blinking movements of a wearer so as to form the pressure difference inside the body, thereby allowing the tears to flow into the body.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a polymer waveguide including a substrate, a cladding layer made of a first polymer, formed on the substrate, wherein a first monomer is polymerized into the first polymer, and the cladding layer has a groove for the waveguide by removing part of the cladding layer, and a core accommodating graphene therein, formed on the groove, a method for manufacturing the same, and a passively mode-locked laser based on the polymer waveguide.

Abstract: A communication and charging method using a human body channel, and a device performing the communication and charging method are disclosed. The communication and charging method of an electronic device includes generating a high-frequency data signal and a low-frequency power signal by performing frequency modulation on a data signal and a power signal, and transmitting the generated high-frequency data signal and the generated low-frequency power signal to another electronic device connected to the electronic device through a human body channel.

Abstract: A method for directly synthesizing graphene on a surface of a target object includes: forming a non-metal layer on a support substrate; disposing the target object in a space above the support substrate, which is opposite to the non-metal layer; and injecting a carbon precursor to form graphene on the surface of the target object to synthesize a graphene film, wherein the graphene is nucleated and grown by a decomposition of the carbon precursor, the carbon precursor is decomposed by heat with catalytic assistance from the non-metal layer, and a carbon atom from the decomposition of the precursor is anchored on the surface to form the graphene film.

Abstract: Embodiments relate to a noise suppressor for suppressing noise of an optical signal, including a core through which the optical signal travels, a clad that is wrapped around the core and configured to expose part of the core, and a graphene layer formed on the part of the core, and a digital optical signal generation system including the same.

Abstract: Provided is a smart contact lens for non-invasive drug delivery including a platform configured to be worn on an eye, a reservoir installed within the platform, and having a receiving part in which a drug is received, to provide the eye with the drug, an electrode for iontophoresis installed in the reservoir to make iontophoresis work, to provide the eye with the drug from the reservoir, and an activation chip electrically connected to the electrode for iontophoresis to activate iontophoresis.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for manufacturing a graphene electro-optic modulator, which is freely attachable to and detachable from an optical waveguide and modulates a light according to an electric signal. The method includes: forming two metal electrodes on an oxide film formed on a substrate, the two metal electrodes being spaced apart from each other; synthesizing a first graphene film at a metal foil; coating the first graphene film with a polymer membrane; removing the metal foil at which the first graphene film is synthesized; and transferring the first graphene film coated with the polymer membrane onto the oxide film, wherein the first graphene film is electrically connected to any one of the two metal electrodes. There is also provided a graphene electro-optic modulator manufactured by the method.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for directly synthesizing graphene on a surface of a target object, which includes: forming a non-metal layer on a support substrate; disposing the target object in a space above the support substrate, which is opposite to the non-metal layer; and injecting a carbon precursor to form graphene on the surface of the target object to synthesize a graphene film, wherein the graphene is nucleated and grown by a decomposition of the carbon precursor, the carbon precursor is decomposed by heat with the catalytic assist from the non-metal layer, a carbon atom from the decomposition of the precursor is anchored on the surface to form the graphene film.

Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a method for manufacturing a graphene electro-optic modulator, which is freely attachable to and detachable from an optical waveguide and modulates a light according to an electric signal. The method includes: forming two metal electrodes on an oxide film formed on a substrate, the two metal electrodes being spaced apart from each other; synthesizing a first graphene film at a metal foil; coating the first graphene film with a polymer membrane; removing the metal foil at which the first graphene film is synthesized; and transferring the first graphene film coated with the polymer membrane onto the oxide film, wherein the first graphene film is electrically connected to any one of the two metal electrodes. There is also provided a graphene electro-optic modulator manufactured by the method.

Abstract: A method for in situ synthesis of graphene along a lengthwise direction of a waveguide applied to a photonic device includes processing an evanescent field of laser propagating in the waveguide to spread outward the waveguide, depositing a nickel thin film on a surface of the waveguide, growing graphene between a surface of the waveguide and a nickel thin film by irradiating telecommunication laser to a core of the waveguide, and removing the nickel thin film from the waveguide. Accordingly, graphene with high optical nonlinearity is in situ synthesized in the photonic device.

Abstract: A contact lens for collecting tear or delivering a drug includes an inner lens placed on an eyeball, an outer lens provided at an outer side of the inner lens to overlap the inner lens, and a plurality of pillars disposed between the inner lens and the outer lens to form a space between the inner lens and the outer lens, wherein the contact lens has a plurality of interfacing ports for connecting a chamber with an outside of the contact lens.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a non-invasive health indicator monitoring system including a sensing module, an electric power storage module, and a circuit module to collect health indicator information by contacting with a subject. In addition, the present invention also relates to a method for monitoring health indicator continuously by using the health indicator monitoring system.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a smart wearable lens mounted with an all-solid-state thin film secondary battery including a flexible substrate, a cathode current collector, a cathode, a solid electrolyte, an anode, and an anode current collector. The smart wearable lens mounted with the all-solid-state thin film secondary battery may be stably and continuously supplied with power and has a low self-discharge rate. In addition, the smart wearable lens may minimize aversion when humans are wearing the smart wearable lens and be suitably used for a curved lens, especially a micro-lens such as a contact lens.