• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.32 no.8
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• pp.62-68
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• 2015

본고에서는 차세대 보안통신 기술로 주목 받고 있는 양자암호시스템의 핵심 모듈인 단일광자 검출기의 최신 연구동향과 KIST 연구개발 내용에 대해 기술한다. 현재 상용화 수준으로까지 발전한 유선 양자암호 시스템에서는 성능, 소형화, 가격 등의 장점으로 인해 주로 InGaAs/InP avalanche photo diode (APD)를 이용한 단일광자검출기가 사용되고 있다. 유선 양자암호에서 사용하는 1550nm 통신 파장대의 단일광자가 갖는 에너지는 0.8 eV로 매우 미약한 수준이기 때문에 신호 검출을 위해 APD소자를 내부 증폭 이득이 무한대인 가이거모드(Geiger mode)에서 동작시킨다. 매우 높은 증폭비는 신호 검출뿐만 아니라 노이즈에도 동일하게 영향을 미치기 때문에 주변환경 노이즈에 의한 검출기 오동작 문제가 심각하게 발생한다. 따라서 단일광자검출기 구현에서 가장 중요한 기술은 소자 및 검출기 모듈에서 발생하는 노이즈의 영향을 최소화 시켜주는 것이다. 전세계적으로 검출기의 대표적인 노이즈인 after pulse를 저감 시키기 위한 연구가 매우 활발히 이루어지고 있는데 대표적으로 self-differencing, auxiliary signal, integrating, double balanced 등의 방법이 제시되고 있다. 본고에서는 각각의 최신 기술들에 대한 비교 분석 및 이를 바탕으로 현재 KIST에서 진행하고 있는 양자암호시스템을 위한 단일광자검출기 기술 개발에 대해 서술한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.132-133
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• 2007

$In_xGa_{1-x}N/In_yGa_{1-y}N$ 다중 양자우물 녹색 발광 다이오드에 2차원 광자 결정을 이용하여 음극선 발광의 향상을 관찰 하였다. 정사각형 배열의 2차원 광자 결정의 주기와 격자 상수는 200/500 nm 이고 전자빔 리소그래피로 광자결정 패턴을 제작한 후, 플라즈마 건식 식각법으로 패턴을 구현하였다. 식각 시간의 차이를 둔 구현된 패턴의 홀 깊이는, 각각 ${\sim}69nm,\;{\sim}99nm,\;{\sim}173nm$ 이었다. 전계 방사 주사 현미경 측정 결과, 형성된 홀은 끝이 잘린 역전된 원뿔 모양으로 식각 되었다. 식각 된 홀의 깊이에 따라 광자 결정이 있는 부분이 없는 부분보다 최대 ${\sim}30$배 많은 광자가 검출 됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.507-514
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to find a formula that can easily calculate the effective photon energy in the X-ray beam of mammography. The tube voltage measured for each set tube voltage was obtained using the X2 MAM Sensor. The mass attenuation coefficient for aluminum of the aluminum filter was obtained from the half value layer measurement from each measured tube voltage X-ray beam. The mass attenuation coefficient of aluminum obtained from each measured tube voltage X-ray beam was corresponded to the mass attenuation coefficient of aluminum for each photon energy obtained from NIST. The photon energy corresponding to the matching mass attenuation coefficient was determined as the effective photon energy. The formula for calculating the determined effective photon energy was obtained by polynomial matching of the effective photon energy for each tube voltage in the Origin pro 2019b statistical program as y = 28.98968-1.91738x + 0.07786x2-0.000946717x3. Here, x is the measuring tube voltage and y is the effective photon energy. The calculation formula of the effective photon energy of the mammography X-ray beam obtained in this study is considered to be very useful in obtaining the interaction coefficient between the X-ray beam and a certain substance in clinical practice.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.1207-1212
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose three-dimensional (3D) visualization and recognition techniques of micro-objects under photon-starved conditions using photon counting integral imaging microscopy. To capture high resolution 2D images with different perspectives in the proposed method, we use Synthetic Aperture Integral Imaging (SAII). Poisson distribution which is mathematical model of photon counting imaging system is used to extract photons from the images. To estimate 3D images with 2D photon counting images, the statistical estimation is used. Therefore, 3D images can be obtained and visualized without any damage under photon-starved conditions. In addition, 3D object recognition can be implemented using nonlinear correlation filters. To prove the usefulness of our technique, we implemented the optical experiment.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.12
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• pp.329-334
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• 2012

For the dosimetry of the radiation workers, film badge, Thermo Luminescent Dosimeter (TLD), and glass dosimeter are being used and recently, there is a growing trend of using Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dosimeter (OSLD) in the world. However, OSLD is only being applied some of the field in Korea and there has been almost no study made related to OSLD. Thus, the accumulated radiation dose of TLD and OSLD that have been most frequently used in the field was compared in the radiation workers of nuclear medicine and their working areasfor 3 months. As a result, the average surface dose showed 0.85 mSv difference with 1.27 mSv for TLD and 2.12 mSv for OSLD while having 0.73 mSv difference for the average depth dose with 1.33 mSv for TLD and 2.06 mSv for OSLD. The surface dose and depth dose of OSLD showed statistically significant result with higher measurement (p<0.05).

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.12
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• pp.53-62
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• 1999

Center of photon mass(CPM), defined as the center of axial photon distribution, is proposed as a unified design parameter, which contains information about both threshold gain and nonuniformity of axial photon distribution in DFB lasers with low and high-reflection facets. The CPM is inversely proportional to threshold gain and is 0.5 when axial photon distribution is the most uniform. Therefore, a general rule of single-frequency leser design is that main mode CPM should be around 0.5 for-uniform axial photon distribution and side mode CPM should be minimized to maximize the threshold gain difference.

• Photonics industry news
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• s.29
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• pp.52-63
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• 2005

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.41-50
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• 1995

The absorbed dose and contaminant electron distribution of therapeutic X-ray beam (15MV photon) was studied with a half blocked beams of 30$\times$30$\textrm{cm}^2$ and field size ranging from 5$\times$5 to 30$\times$30$\textrm{cm}^2$. For a 15MV photon beam energy, the value of the depth of dose maximum, d$_{max}$, gradually decrease with increasing field size from 5$\times$5 to 30$\times$30$\textrm{cm}^2$ due to mainly by contaminant electrons which are produced in the flattening filter and scattered by collimator jaws, tray holder〔Lucite〕, blocking block and air. The results suggest that separate dosimetry data should be kept for blocked and unblocked field. The inherence of the contaminant electrons to the open field depth of maximum dose can lead to mistaken results if attenuation measurements are made at that depth. A nurmerous contaminant electrons mainly were distributed as shape of corn in the central photon beam and their path length in the water were shorter than 30mm because of the electrons energy having around 6MeV. These results clearly appears that the substraction of scattered electrons (electrons and positrons) from the total depth dose curve not only lowers the absolute dose in the bulidup region and surface dose, it also causes a shift of d$_{max}$ to a deeper depth. In the terapeutic high energy photon beam, the absorbed dose near the buildup region is the combined result of incident contaminant electrons and phantom generated electronsrons.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.211-216
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• 2009

Much research into two-dimensional (2-D) photonic crystal (PC) structures has been conducted for realization of ultrasmall optical integrated circuits. A 2-D silicon (Si) PC slab structure with air cladding (n=1) is one of the representative structures in 2-D PCs. While air-clad Si PC slab structures have good optical characteristics, their suspension in air can lead to mechanical weakness, making integration with some optical devices difficult. In this paper, we propose improving the mechanical robustness of PC structure by developing a 2-D Si PC structure with symmetric silica cladding (n=1.44) and comparing its optical properties to that of the air-clad structure. First, we investigate the optical properties of a 2-D Si PC slab structure with air cladding by using a 3-D finite difference time domain method. We determined that a photonic bandgap of 330 nm and a non-leaky propagating bandwidth of 100 nm in the optical communication range are possible. Next, we investigate the optical properties of 2-D Si PC slab structures with silica cladding. Even though the refractive index of the silica cladding is higher than that of air, we developed a silica-clad structure with good optical properties: a photonic band gap of approximately 230 nm and a non-leaky propagating bandwidth of 90 nm, comparable to that of the air-clad PC structures.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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• v.36D no.12
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• pp.63-69
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• 1999

Center of photon mass, defined as the center of axial photon distribution in each half, is proposed as a unified design parameter in quarter wavelength shifted(QWS) DFB lasers. Shown is the way the parameter is related to the threshold pain difference and uniformity in axial photon density, which determine single-frequency stability of DFB lasers. Also, a general rule for single-frequency DFB laser design is presented. Using the design rule, we propose a sampled grating QWS-DFB laser that has a wider $_KL$ range 0f 100% single-frequency yield.