• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.448-452
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• 2018

A three-wavelength $Pr^{3+}:YLF$ laser at 604 nm, 607 nm and 640 nm simultaneously output by Fabry-Perot (F-P) etalon has been obtained. A 444 nm blue laser diode is used for pumping the $Pr^{3+}:YLF$ crystal, and a 0.1 mm F-P etalon is inserted in the resonator to select wavelength. The theoretical model of three-wavelength $Pr^{3+}:YLF$ laser is established, by adjusting the tilt angle of the etalon, the transmittances of the different wavelengths can be controlled, and the threshold values can be made to equalize by controlling the loss among different wavelengths. In the experiment, when the tilt angle of etalon is $9^{\circ}$ and the optimized length of resonator is 48 mm, the total output power of 25 mW at the three-wavelength is achieved at incident pump power of 7.5 W.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.422-430
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• 2018

Rolling shutter operation of CMOS cameras can be utilized in optical camera communications in order to transmit data from an LED to mobile devices such as smart-phones. From temporally modulated light, a spatial flicker pattern is obtained in the captured image, and this is used for signal recovery. Due to the degradation of rolling shutter images caused by light smear, motion blur, and focus blur, the conventional decoding schemes for rolling shutter cameras based on the pattern width for 'OFF' and 'ON' cannot guarantee robust communications performance for practical uses. Aside from conventional techniques, such as polynomial fitting, histogram equalization can be used for blurry light mitigation, but it requires additional computation abilities resulting in burdens on mobile devices. This paper proposes a transition-based decoding scheme for rolling shutter cameras in order to offer simple and robust data decoding in the presence of image degradation. Based on the designed synchronization pulse and modulated data symbols according to the LED dimming level, the decoding process is conducted by observing the transition patterns of two sequential symbol pulses. For this, the extended symbol pulse caused by consecutive symbol pulses with the same level determines whether the second pulse should be included for the next bit decoding or not. The proposed method simply identifies the transition patterns of sequential symbol pulses other than the pattern width of 'OFF' and 'ON' for data decoding, and thus, it is simpler and more accurate. Experimental results ensured that the transition-based decoding scheme is robust even in the presence of blurry lights in the captured image at various dimming levels

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권5호
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• pp.474-481
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• 2018

We propose a polarization phase-shifting technique to investigate the thickness of $Ta_2O_5$ thin films deposited on BK7 substrates, using a modified Sagnac interferometer. Incident light is split by a polarizing beam splitter into two orthogonal linearly polarized beams traveling in opposite directions, and a quarter-wave plate is inserted into the common path to create an unbalanced phase condition. The linearly polarized light beams are transformed into two circularly polarized beams by transmission through a quarter-wave plate placed at the output of the interferometer. The proposed setup, therefore, yields rotating polarized light that can be used to extract a relative phase via the self-reference system. A thin-film sample inserted into the cyclic path modifies the output signal, in terms of the phase retardation. This technique utilizes three phase-shifted intensities to evaluate the phase retardation via simple signal processing, without manual adjustment of the output polarizer, which subsequently allows the thin film's thickness to be determined. Experimental results show that the thicknesses obtained from the proposed setup are in good agreement with those acquired by a field-emission scanning electron microscope and a spectroscopic ellipsometer. Thus, the proposed interferometric arrangement can be utilized reliably for non-contact thickness measurements of transparent thin films and characterization of optical devices.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.286-292
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• 2020

Imaging through multicore fiber (MCF) is of great significance in the biomedical domain. Although several techniques have been developed to image an object from a signal passing through MCF, these methods are strongly dependent on the surroundings, such as vibration and the temperature fluctuation of the fiber's environment. In this paper, we apply a new, strong technique called deep learning to reconstruct the phase image through a MCF in which each core is multimode. To evaluate the network, we employ the binary cross-entropy as the loss function of a convolutional neural network (CNN) with improved U-net structure. The high-quality reconstruction of input objects upon spatial light modulation (SLM) can be realized from the speckle patterns of intensity that contain the information about the objects. Moreover, we study the effect of MCF length on image recovery. It is shown that the shorter the fiber, the better the imaging quality. Based on our findings, MCF may have applications in fields such as endoscopic imaging and optical communication.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2013

Based on the dispersive feature of the dielectric function of noble metals and the wave vector conservation in physics, both the plasma effect and the complex refractive index, which are profoundly correlated to the complex dielectric function and permeability, have been studied and analyzed. The condition to induce a bulk or a surface plasma in the visible region will not be satisfied, and there will be one solution for the real and the imaginary parts of the refractive index, restricting it only to region I of the complex plane. The results given in this work will aid in understanding the properties of light transmission at the metal/dielectric interface as characterized by the law of refraction in nature.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.450-457
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• 2021

Upconversion (UC) properties of Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ spherical particles synthesized by spray pyrolysis were investigated by changing the dopant concentration and calcination temperature. Citric acid (CA), ethylene glycol (EG) and N, N-dimethylformamide (DMF) were used to control the microstructure of Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ particles. In terms of achieving the highest UC green emission intensity, the optimal concentrations of Ho³⁺ and Yb³⁺ were found to be 0.3% and 3.0%, respectively. In addition, the UC intensity of Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ showed a linear relationship with the crystallite size. The use of organic additives allows Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ particles to have a spherical and dense structure, resulting in significantly reducing the surface area while maintaining high crystallinity. As a result, the UC emission intensity of Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ particles having a dense structure showed the UC emission intensity about 3.8 times higher than that of hollow particles prepared without organic additives. From those results, when Y₂O₃:Ho³⁺/Yb³⁺ particles are prepared by the spray pyrolysis process, the use of the CA/EG/DMF mixtures as organic additives has been suggested as an effective way to substantially increase the UC emission intensity.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.186-190
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• 2021

In this study, a compact, picosecond, mid-infrared 3.8 ㎛ MgO:PPLN optical parametric oscillator (OPO) laser output with high peak power is realized using a master oscillator power amplifier (MOPA) 1 ㎛ solid-state laser seeded by a picosecond fiber laser as the pump source. The pump source was a 50 MHz and 10 ps fiber seed source. After AOM pulse selection and two-stage solid-state amplification, a 1,064 nm laser output with a repetition frequency of 1-2 MHz, pulse width of 9.5 ps, and a maximum average power of 20 W was achieved. Furthermore, a compact short cavity with a unsynchronized pump is adopted through the design of an OPO cavity structure. When the injection pump power was 15 W and the repetition frequency was 1 MHz, the average output power of idler light was 1.19 W, and the corresponding peak power was 119 kW. The optical conversion efficiency was 7.93%. When the repetition frequency was increased to 2 MHz, the average output power of idler light was 1.63 W, the corresponding peak power was 81.5 kW, and the optical conversion efficiency was 10.87%. At the same time, the output wavelength was measured at 3,806 nm, and the beam quality was MX2 = 3.21 and MY2 = 3.34.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제12권12호
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• pp.267-272
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• 2021

본 연구는 3D 프린팅을 통해 제작된 항공부품 인증에 관한 제안을 하고자 한다. 현재 다양한 산업군에서 여러 방식의 3D 프린터가 활용되고 있다. 그 중 항공분야에서도 무인기나 항공부품 제작을 위하여 많은 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 그러나, 현재의 3D 프린터 기술 수준 및 이를 활용한 항공부품 적용 등에는 많은 문제점들 및 관련 감항 인증 기준이 미흡한 상태이다. 또한, 적합성과 합치성에 대한 명확한 인증 기준은 제시된 것이 드물다. 따라서, 항공부품으로 적용하기 위한 3D 프린팅 장비의 인증 관련 사항들을 제안하고자 한다. 앞으로 3D 프린팅 장비의 정밀도 향상 및 불량률 저하, 축 처짐 문제, 베드 레벨링 문제 등이 해결될 것으로 기대되고, 이에 대한 인증기준이 명확하게 정립되기를 바란다. 그리고, 3D 프린팅 기술을 적용한 항공부품의 신뢰성이 향상되기를 바라고, 관련 인증 기준들이 더욱 발전되기를 바란다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권7호
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• pp.220-233
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• 2019

올라퍼 엘리아슨은 <날씨 프로젝트>(2003)을 통해 설치라는 낯선 장르를 대중의 의식에 깊이 각인시켰다. 그 동안 엘리아슨의 작업에 대해서는 그 동안 다양한 각도에서 접근이 이루어져왔다. 여기서는 그 다양한 해석의 시도들을 크게 신체미학 정치미학 기술미학적 접근의 세 유형으로 분류한 후, 비판적 검토를 통해 그 각각에 담긴 합리적 핵심들을 하나로 종합하게 될 것이다. 하지만 이 과정에서 기존의 해석들에는 엘리아슨을 비롯해 최근 설치예술가들이 빈번히 사용하는 '빛'의 효과에 대한 언급이 거의 등장하지 않는다는 사실이 드러난다. 그것은 현재 우리가 사용하는 미학에 빛의 분위기 효과를 기술하는 데에 적합한 개념도구가 존재하지 않기 때문이다. 이 논문에서는 엘리아슨의 작업을 제대로 이해하는 데에는 이 빛의 효과에 대한 분석이 필수적이며, 그 분석에 필요한 이론의 결핍을 보충하기 위해 중세의 신학적 광학이 다시 참조할 필요가 있음을 강조하게 될 것이다. 중세의 '빛의 미학'은 설치미술을 넘어 디지털시대의 시각성 일반의 특징을 규명하는 데에도 도움이 될 수 있다.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.243-251
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• 2019

최근 탄두와 기만체 간의 변별을 수행하기 위하여 미세도플러 현상과 관련된 연구들이 활발히 진행되어 왔다. 여기서, 탄두와 기만체는 다양한 형상들로 정의될 수 있으며, 이들은 일반적으로 각각의 고유한 미세운동을 가지면서 기동한다. 이때, 이 표적들의 미세도플러 현상은 크기 및 위상 변조 특성으로 나뉘어 해석될 수 있으며, 대부분의 기존 연구들에서는 다양한 형상에 상관없이 크기 변조 특성을 근사적인 수학식으로만 정의하였다. 하지만, 보다 효율적인 변별을 위해서는 이 표적들의 크기 변조 현상에 대한 정확한 수학적 표현이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 물리광학 기반의 크기 변조 특성을 모델링하기 위하여 다양한 형상의 탄두 및 기만체에 대한 새로운 레이다 수신신호 모델을 제안한 후, 전자기 수치해석 도구 및 캐드 모델을 사용한 수신신호들과 비교하여 제안된 레이다 수신신호 모델의 타당성을 검증하였다.