Un-chul Paek, South Korean optical physicist (Jinju, Gyeongnam Province 02 December 1934 – Gwangju 03 May 2011)
Held at least 44 patents
Developed a furnace for drawing fibers and techniques for high-speed drawing, cooling and coating of these fibers
OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
With S. Oh, K.R. Lee & Y.J. Chung. Fabrication of helical long-period fiber gratings by use of a CO2 laser. Opt. Letters 29(13):1464-66, 2004
With Y.G. Han, S.H. Kim, S.B. Lee & Y. Chung. Development of a novel core mode blocker with H-2 loaded Ge-B co-doped fiber. IEEE Electronics Letters 39(15):1107-8, 2003
With Y.G. Han, S.H. Kim, S.B. Lee, Y. Chung et al. Novel Raman fiber laser and fiber-optic sensors using multi-channel fiber gratings. J. Opt. Soc. Korea 7(2):97-101, 2003
With J. Lee, G.H. Song & Y.G. Seo. Design and fabrication of dispersion-managed fibres by periodic etching during the MCVD process. Electronics Letters 37(1):11-2, 2001
With B.H. Lee, Y.J. Kim, Y.J. Chung & W.T. Han. Fiber modal index measurements based on fiber gratings. Fiber Integrated Optics 20(5):443-55, 2001