• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.11
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• pp.130-137
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• 2013

This paper presents analog front-end(AFE) circuits for bio-potential measurement. The proposed AFE is composed of IA(instrument amplifier), BPF(band-pass filter), VGA(variable gain amplifier) and SAR(successive approximation register) type ADC. The low gm(LGM) circuits with current division technique and Miller capacitance with high gain amplifier enable IA to implement on-chip AC-coupling without external passive components. Spilt capacitor array with capacitor division technique and asynchronous control make the 12-b ADC with low power consumption and small die area. The total current consumption of proposed AFE is 6.3uA at 1.8V.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.162-168
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• 1999

A new design of four-pass dye laser amplifier affording a narrow-bandwidth pulsed output is demonstrated to suppress the amplified spontaneous emission(ASE) carried by the amplifier output and reduce the possibility of parasitic oscillation in the amplifier. By the direct pulsed amplification of a cw 100 mW dye laser under a Q-switched doubled Nd:YAG laser pumping with energy of 5.6 mJ/pulse, high-peak-power pulsed output with 1.5-mJ energy in 130-MHz bandwidth is obtained corresponding to a power gain greater than $2{\times}10^6$ and an energy efficiency of 27%. The ASE ratio in the four-pass amplifier output is dramatically reduced by using a diffraction grating in the amplifier. Compared with the results obtained from the normal operation of the amplifier with no frequency-selective device, the ASE ratio is reduced by a factor in excess of 10 to remain under 1.5% of the amplifier output whereas the total output energy is slightly increased by ~4%.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.1249-1255
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• 2008

1530nm band has been studied as pump wavelength for long-wavelength-band erbium-doped fiber amplifier (L-band EDFA). The pump source is built using a tunable light source and cascaded conventional-band (C-band) EDFA. The L-band EDFA uses a forward pumping scheme. Within the 1530nm band, 1545nm pump demonstrates 0.45dB/mW gain coefficient, which is twice better than that of conventional 1480nm pumped EDFA. The noise figure of 1530nm pump is at worst 6.36dB, which is 0.75dB higher than that of 1480nm pumped EDFA. Such high gain coefficient indicates that the L-band EDFA consumes low power.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.27 no.9
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• pp.825-833
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• 2016

This paper introduces a direct-conversion CMOS RF transmitter for the IEEE 802.15.4 standard with a low-power high-gain up-conversion mixer designed in $0.18{\mu}m$ process. The designed RF DCT(Direct Conversion Transmitter) is composed of differential DAC(Digital to Analog Converter), passive low-pass filter, quadrature active mixer and drive amplifier. The most important characteristic in designing RF DCT is to satisfy the 2.4 GHz Zigbee standard in low power. The quadrature active mixer inside the proposed RF DCT provides enough high gain as well as sufficient linearity using a gain boosting technique. The measurement results for the proposed transmitter show very low power consumption of 7.8 mA, output power more than 0 dBm and ACPR (Adjacent Channel Power Ratio) of -30 dBc.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.321-328
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• 2008

In this paper, variable gain amplifier(VGA) with a gain slope controller has been proposed and verified by circuit simulations and measurements. The proposed VGA has a gain control, gain slope switch and variable gain range. The input source coupled pair with diode connected load is used for VGA gain stage. The gain slope controller with switch can control VGA gain slope. The proposed VGA is fabricated in $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process for multi -standard wireless receiver. The proposed two stage VGA consumes min. 2.0 mW to max. 2.6 mW in gain control range and gives input IP3 of -3.77 dBm and NF of 28.7 dB at 1.8 V power supply under -25 dBm, 1 MHz input. The proposed VGA has 37 dB(-16 dB $\sim$ 21 dB) variable gain range, and 8 dB gain range control per 0.3 V control voltage, and can provide variable gain, positive and negative gain slope control, and gain range control. This VGA characteristics provide design flexibility in multi-standard wireless receiver.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.244-249
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• 1996

Multipass Ti:sapphire amplifier for the light source of DIAL was developed with an angular-multi-plexing, and the characteristics of output energy and spectra were investigated. As the characteristics of two-stage multipass amplifier, the maximum output energy was 22 mJ and the amplification gain was 20 dB on the wavelength of 790 nm. At that condition, output efficiency of the pumping energy was 18 percent. We obtained $0.15cm^{-1}$ (9.4 pm) as a spectral linewidth in the tuning range of 705~845 nm.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.08a
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• pp.121-124
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• 2009

In this paper, the techniques and design focus of flexible gain coltrol of LAN(Low Noise Amplifier) using the TSMC 0.18um CMOS process. The design frequency set up a standard on 2.4GHz that is used in Zigbee system. The design concepts a basic Cascode LNA techniques and a swiching circuit consisted of 4 NMOS of load resistance, which convert the output impedenceby tuning on or off. The result show the gain change by NMOS operated swich. The simulation result is that Gain is 14.07dB-16.79dB and NF(Noise Figure) is 1.06dB-1.09dB.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07b
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• pp.983-986
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• 2003

This paper describes a 2.5V 80dB 360MHz CMOS VGA. A new variable degeneration resistor is proposed where the dc voltage drop over the degeneration resistor is minimized and employed in designing a low-voltage and high-speed CMOS VGA. HSPICE simulation results using a 0.25${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ CMOS process parameters show that the designed VGA provides a 3dB bandwidth of 360MHz and a 80dB gain control range in 2dB step. Gain errors are less than 0.4dB at 200MHz and less than 1.4dB at 300MHz. The designed circuit consumes 10.8mA from a 2.5V supply and its die area is 1190${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$$\times$360${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.434-438
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• 2003

XeCl 엑시머 레이저로 펌핑되는 쌍공진기형 색소레이저와 2단 증폭시스템을 개발하여 원격계측 시스템에 적합한 두 개의 파장을 동시 또는 순차적으로 출력하였다. 개발된 쌍공진기는 1200 g/mm의 회절격자를 갖는 grazing-incidence 방법에서 제 1차 및 제 2차 회절차수를 이용하여 구성되었다. 출력특성은 스펙트럼 선폭이 10 pm이하이고, 펌프 에너지에 대하 전체효율은 6% 이상이다. 또한, 파장가변 영역은 제 1차 및 제 2차의 회절차수에 대해 각각 434-470 nm, 436-468 nm 이며, 2단의 증폭기의 증폭이득은 37dB, 추출효율은 9%이다. 개발된 레이저 증폭시스템에서 Coumarine-450의 색소로 발진하고, 이의 출력 6 mJ을 원격계측시스템에 적용하여 수원상공의 NO$_2$의 가스농도분포를 측정하였다. 이 결과 개발된 색소레이저 시스템은 원격계측 시스템의 광원으로 매우 적합함을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.575-581
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• 2000

In this paper, a new active phase shifter is proposed using a vector sum method, and a unique digital phase control method of the circuit is suggested. The proposed scheme was designed and implemented using a Wilkinson power combiner/divider, a branch line 3 dB quadrature hybrid coupler and variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) using gate FETs(DGFETs). Furthermore, it was also shown that the proposed scheme is more efficient and works properly with the digital phase control method.