• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.238-246
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• 2024

Modern military operations rely heavily on broadband communication and data transmission. Recently, the rising use of intelligent unmanned technology necessitates more frequencies. Free-space optical(FSO) communication can offer high-data-rate communications with high security and no need for licensing. Therefore, the FSO communication holds significant interest and potential in the defense industry. In this paper, we present design of a FSO communication terminal taking Korean domestic weather conditions into account. The domestic atmospheric attenuation is analyzed using several models and two-year meteorological information for a city in Korea, and this analysis is utilized to design the FSO communication terminal. The design results were verified using an FSO communication test bed, and we achieved an Ethernet bandwidth of approximately 1.86 Gbps at a distance of 1.3 km with the optical amplifier output power of the test bed set to about 20 dBm.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.956-966
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• 1997

Dynamic free-space optical interconnection system is experimented by a holographic crossbar with single-state switching architecture. For dynamic operation, electrically addressed liquid-crystal spatial light modulator and diffraction gratings are used in place of passive holograms of matrix-matrix crossbar. Diffraction gratings are consisted of regular cells which have different phase delays. This pixelated phase grating array displayed on SLM(Spatial Light modulator) deflects an input beam toward a wanted direction or splits an input beam into many beams and then steers them to desired positions. Through the experimental results, free-space optical interconnection is dynamically perfomed using a computer, SLM and phase diffraction gratings.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.326-334
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• 1991

We propose an optical Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM) switching system using free-space optics and an output buffer memory. The distributor system in the switching fabric was analyzed using the Huygens-Fresnel principle and lens transformation. For monochromatic illumination, a pattern similar to the Fourier transform of the input distribution was observed across the output plane. A spatially broadened intensity distribution across the the output plane can be expected when the system is illminated with a partially coherent, quasimonochromatic beam. Spatially coherent pulses as short as 100fs can propagate through the distributor without severe spatial broadening.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.396-400
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• 2006

We present a weather-insensitive optical free-space communication method supporting optical packet channels. It operates optical fiber amplifiers in gain-saturation regions. When the propagation loss gets too high, it decreases the average packet rate, or the average packet length, or both, to increase the optical power level launched into the free-space. As a demonstration, we transmit $8{\times}10$ Gigabit Ethernet channels over a terrestrial distance of 2.4 km. One gain-saturated free-space optical repeater is used at the halfway point.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.04a
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• pp.180-181
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• 2015

가시광통신은 조명용 LED를 사용하여 자유공간을 통하여 광신호를 직접 전송하는 무선광통신 방식의 일종으로서 하나의 광원으로 조명과 통신을 겸할 수 있는 장점이 있으나 전송구간이 가시거리로 제한되는 한계가 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 한계를 극복하고자 가시광통신 구간 사이에 전력선통신을 이용하여 가시거리 구간 밖으로 가시광통신의 전송범위를 확장하였다. 이러한 구조는 가시광 통신 구간을 넓혀주는 효과가 있어 실내의 LED 조명을 이용한 가시광통신 시스템을 신설하거나 확장하는 경우에 많이 활용할 수 있다.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.17 no.6 s.78
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• pp.39-47
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• 2002

지금까지 last-mile 구간의 병목 현상을 해결하기 위해 다양한 매체와 기술들이 선보였으나, 어떠한 솔루션도 통신 사업자들의 요구 조건을 완벽하게 충족시키지 못하고 있다. 광 섬유가 가장 이상적인 대안으로 평가 받고 있지만 여전히 높은 가격과 긴 구축 시간으로 인해 주로 메트로 코어에 집중적으로 설치되어 있는 상태이며, 액세스 및 에지 구간까지 확대되려면 앞으로 상당한 시간이 소요될 것으로 예상되고 있다. 따라서 FTTx 환경이 마련되기 전까지 한시적인 대안으로서 현재까지 LMDS/MMDS와 같은 RF 솔루션, xDSL 및 케이블 모뎀과 같은 동선 기반 광대역 액세스 솔루션들이 제안되었으나, 이들 기술들도 적절한 가격에 충분한 대역폭을 제공해야 하는 last-mile의 요구 조건을 만족시키지는 못하고 있다. 이에 본 고에서는 최근 또 다른 기업용 last-mile 솔루션으로 새롭게 부각되고 있는 자유 공간 광 통신(FSO)의 성장 가능성과 발전 전망을 탐색해 보고자 한다.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.99-105
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• 2022

We have evaluated the performance of an all-optical automatic gain-controlled (AGC) erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) to suppress the optical signal fluctuation induced by atmospheric turbulence in terrestrial free-space optical communication systems. In our measurements, the input power into the EDFA was set to be -30 dBm and -10 dBm to operate the amplifier in the small-signal and saturation regions, respectively. The fluctuations in the optical signal were emulated with an acousto-optic modulator driven with a sinusoidal voltage. From the measured results, we have found that an all-optical AGC EDFA could suppress the optical signal fluctuation effectively, as long as the EDFA operated in the small-signal region with a high feedback amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) power.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2000.02a
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• pp.16-17
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• 2000

무선광통신기술은 케이블의 신설 또는 재 설치가 어려운 구간이나 보안성이 요구되는 무선전송 구간에 많이 사용된다. 또한 기존의 무선주파수와 상호간섭이 적으며, 구현이 간편하여 실내의 짧은 광 전송구간과 빌딩간의 고속광전송에 그 이용이 점점 증가하고 있다$^{(1-5)}$ . LOS(Line of sight)방식의 광연결에서는 광원으로부터의 출력빔의 방향과 광검출기의 위치가 잘 정렬되어야 한다. 광원으로부터 광검출기 사이의 신호전송매체가 자유공간이므로 외부의 기계적 진동에 의하여 광원의 위치가 미소하게 변경되는 경우, 출력광의 진행방향이 광검출기의 위치에 일치하지 않아 수신부에서 검출되는 신호는 매우 약해질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 경우에 효과적으로 사용할 수 있는 자동정렬형 광검출구조를 개발하였다. 자동정렬형 광검출기의 구조도는 그림[1]과 같다. (중략)

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.118-128
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• 2018

With the massive increase in bandwidth for wireless communications, free space optical (FSO) communication has attracted significant interest owing to its outstanding strengths over conventional radio frequency wireless communication such as a wide bandwidth, unlicensed spectrum, low power consumption, small size, electromagnetic interference immunity, long-range propagation, and improved security. In recent years, FSO technology has been studied intensively for use in terrestrial and underwater autonomous and unmanned mobile systems, a rapidly growing application area, including robots, drones, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous vehicles, unmanned trains, and unmanned submarines. In this report, we review the recent trends and key technologies for the mobile FSO system, and introduce our drone-based mobile FSO system, which is currently under development.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.230-236
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• 2019

We propose and demonstrate a searching and autoalignment method for indoor optical wireless communication, using a cost-effective retroreflective sheet and a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror. We use an extremum-seeking method for a single axis and beam steering with a MEMS mirror to maintain a line of sight (LOS) with the optical link. This autoalignment method shows a receiver sensitivity of -31.87 dBm for a bit rate of 2.5 Gb/s over a 7 m communication link.