• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07c
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• pp.2037-2039
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• 2004

고전압 전력기기분야에 광섬유 전압센서를 적용해보고자하는 연구는 20여년 전부터 꾸준히 진행되어 왔었다. 본 연구에서는 구조가 간편한 광섬유 패브리페로 간섭계를 이용한 고전압기기 적용형 전압센서가 시도되었다. 신호변환은 정전력을 이용하여 전압의 변화를 광섬유스트레인센서로 검출하며, 해상도를 확보하기 위하여 공진기의 길이를 1cm, 위상을 스캐닝하는 변조방법을 적용하였고, 교류전압 1000V까지 적용 타당성을 시험하였다.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.14-15
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• 2000

현재 많은 분야에서 광섬유를 이용한 센서 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 광섬유 코어 부분에 규칙적인 굴절률 변화를 준 광섬유 격자는 외부의 기계적, 열적 변화에 대한 높은 민감도를 가지며 따라서 이를 위한 광센서로 많이 이용되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 장주기를 갖는 격자가 한쌍으로 새겨진 광섬유 격자를 이용하여 비틀림에 의한 파장 스펙트럼의 변화를 측정하여 비틀림 센서로서의 응용 가능성을 모색하였다. (중략)

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6 s.52
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• pp.137-145
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• 2006

Recently, the interests in structural monitoring of civil infrastructures are increased. Especially, as the civil infrastructures such as bridges, tunnels and buildings become large-scale, it is necessary to monitor and maintain the safety state of the structures, which requires smart systems that can supply long-term monitoring during the service time of the structures. In this paper, we investigated the possibilities of fiber optic sensor application to the various structures. We investigate the possibility of using fiber optic Bragg grating sensors to joint structure. The sensors show good response to the structural behavior of the joint while electric gauges lack of sensitivity, durability and long term stability for continuous monitoring. We also apply fiber optic structural monitoring to the composite repaired concrete beam structure. Peel-out effects is detected with optical fiber Bragg grating sensors and the strain difference between main structure and repaired carbon sheets is observed when they separate each other. The real field test was performed to verify the behaviors of fiber Bragg grating sensors attached to the containment structure in Uljin nuclear power plant in Korea as a part of structural integrity test which demonstrates that the structural response of the non-prototype primary containment structures. The optical fiber Bragg grating sensor smart system which is the probable means for long term assessments can be applicable to monitoring of structural members in various civil infrastructures.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.96-105
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• 2000

Fiber optic TR-EFPI(total reflected extrtinsic Fabry-Perot interferometric) sensor was developed to measure the strain of structures, such as building, bridge, aircraft, etc. It has been difficult to distinguish the increase and decrease of the strain from the conventional fiber optic EFPI sensor because their signals only have a sinusoidal wave pattern related to the change of strain. Also, the absolute strain could not be measured by the simple fiber optic EFPI sensor. In this study, in order to measure the magnitude of strain with the direction of strain, the fiber optic sensor was simply constructed with the total reflected EFPI sensor probe. This probe was manufactured with a single mode fiber and a mirror coated fiber in a silica glass capillary tube. The output signal of this fiber optic TR-EFPT sensor can give the information about the magnitude and the direction of strain. The loading-unloading test was performed by the universal testing machine with alluminum beam specimen to compare the strain from fiber optic TR-EFPI sensor with the value from electrical strain gauge. In the result of this experiment. the strain from fiber optic TR-EFPI sensor had a good agreement with the values from the electrical strain gauge.

• Journal of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6 s.52
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• pp.133-135
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• 2006

We propose and fabricate a novel fiber optic sensor for the detection of abnormal structural signals from various constructions. It's advantages are highly sensitive. small in dimension and electro-magnetic immune. Since this sensor was simply constructed with a single-mode fiber at infra-red wavelength and a laser-diode with the wavelength of 625 nm, the modes in the end of the optical fiber were not show as Gaussian distributed. So, we used the change of the mode distribution to get the sensor output by the external abnormal effect of structures. We investigated the resonance by performing the bending test of an aluminum beam attached with the fiber sensor. In the test, we could obtained a feasible signal to sense the abnormal condition of structures.

• Optical Science and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.44-51
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• 1998

광섬유 브래그 격자(fiber Bragg grating)는 광섬유 코어의 굴절율을 주기적으로 변조하여 특정 파장의 빛을 반사시키는 광섬유 소자로써 광섬유와의 연결 손실이 작고 파장 선택도가 높으며 편광에 무관한 특성 등으로 현재 전세계적으로 광통신용 소자나 광섬유 센서 등으로 활발히 연구되고 있다. 본 기술 해설에서는 이러한 광섬유 격자의 역사, 형성 원리 및 종류 등에 관해 알아보고, 단주기, 장주기 그리고 chirped 광섬유 격자의 특성에 대해 기술하였으며, 또한 광섬유 격자소자의 중요한 응용 분야인 광섬유 센서, 광섬유 레이저, 그리고 광통신에의 응용에 관해 소개하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.614-623
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• 2002

In this paper, it was manufactured an interferometric optical fiber sensor and measured partial discharge acoustic signal caused by defect of power facilities such as power cables, transformers and gas insulation. Acrylic and aluminium mandrels wound with fiber-optic were chosen as optical fiber sensor, Sagnac and Mach-Zehnder interferometers were chosen to detect discharge acoustic signals. The two fiber optic interferometers were identified by using the PZT. Discharge experimentation set in the discharge imitation cell in oil tank and the discharge phenomena was generated. Based on the experimental result, to detect the discharge acoustic signal, Sagnac interferometer can detect stably the acoustic signal than the Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It is shown that Sagnac optical fiber sensor can detect the discharge acoustic signals effectively.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.36-45
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• 2010

This paper shows a multiplexing technique to maximize the application of a moire-fringe based fiber optic sensor to lots of structure. Especially, a novel fringe-based fiber optic sensor was proposed to overcome the difficulty of multiplexing of a previous moire-fringe-based fiber optic sensor. The novel fringe-based fiber optic sensor is composed of a single reflective fringe and two optical fibers. Therefore, the multiplexing is easily realized because of the simplicity of optic structure inside the sensor. This paper also proposed four models of the multiplexing techniques. The models are based on a wavelength division multiplexing(WDM) technique and a time division multiplexing(TDM) one. Basically, the models would be profitable for a general extrinsic fiber optic sensor such as the fringe-based fiber optic sensor. Finally, the real optic system was manufactured by using the proposed model and successfully examined to prove the feasibility of the model for the application.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.16-23
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• 2001

Comparing with general optical fiber sensors performing localized measurement, distributed optical fiber sensors can measure along an optical fiber, and they have large measuring range. The surface-mounting method with epoxy adhesive is general in attaching optical fiber sensors to structures, This is also appliable to the structural integrity monitoring with Brillouin-scattering distributed optical fiber sensors. In this paper, Brillouin-scattering distributed optical fiber sensors, which are attached to the surface of a structure with epoxy adhesive, was verified with the finite element method. From the analysis results of strain transfer through the structure, optical fiber coating, cladding and core, the strain transfer rates were calculated. And the influence of the epoxy free-end was also studied.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.499-507
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• 2004

We have studied tile detection techniques, which can determine the location and the weight of an intruder into infrastructure, by using fiber-optic ROTDR (Rayleigh optical time domain reflectometry) sensor and fiber-optic BOTDA (Brillouin Optical time domain analysis) sensor, which can use an optical fiber longer than that of ROTDR sensor Fiber-optic sensing plates of ROTDR sensor, which arc buried in sand, were prepared to respond the intruder effects. The signal of ROTDR was analyzed to confirm the detection performance. The constructed ROTDR could be used up to 10km at the pulse width of 30ns. The location error was less than 2 m and the weight could be detected as 4 grades, such as 20kgf, 40kgf, 60kgf and 80kgf. Also, fiber optic BOTDA sensor was developed to be able to detect intrusion effect through an optical fiber of tells of kilometers longer than ROTDR sensor. fiber-optic BOTDA sensor was constructed with 1 laser diode and 2 electro-optic modulators. The intrusion detection experiment was peformed by the strain inducing set-up installed on an optical table to simulate all intrusion effect. In the result of this experiment, the intrusion effort was well detected as the distance resolution of 3m through the fiber length of about 4.81km during 1.5 seconds.