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Electro-optic Characteristics of Reflective Optically Compensated Splay Cell (반사형 Optically Compensated Splay 셀의 전기-광학 특성)

  • 송제훈;오상민;이종문;이승희
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.983-987
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    • 2004
  • We have studied electro-optic characteristics of reflective optically compensated splay (R-OCS) cell. The initial configuration of this cell is in splay form such that a mid director lies parallel to the substrate and around it hybrid structure is formed symmetrically so the optically compensation effect exists. Optimized optical configurations could be achieved by using a single polarizer, a quarter-wave film and a cell with quarter-wane retardation. The optimal cell retardation is 0.34 ${\mu}$m, allowing to have large cell gap. The cell provides high contrast ratio of 80:1 at normal direction and the region with contrast ratio over 5:1 covert up to 160$^{\circ}$ horizontally and vertically at all wavelength range.

Amplitude Control of Phase Modulation for Dithered Closed-loop Fiber Optic Gyroscope

  • Chong, Kyoung-Ho;Chong, Kil-To;Kim, Young-Chul
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.401-408
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    • 2012
  • The amplitude error of phase modulator used in closed-loop fiber optic gyroscope has occurred by the temperature dependency of the electro-optic coefficient, and also can be due to the square-wave dither signal which is generally applied for eliminating the deadzone. This error can cause bias drift and scale factor error. This paper analyzes the temperature dependency of the modulation amplitude and the relationship with the scale factor of the gyroscope, and deals with an amplitude control method. The error calculation logic considering the dither signal is implemented on the signal processing module. The result of experiments from a prototype gyroscope shows the effect of the modulation amplitude control and a considerable improvement on performances.

A Study on the Security of Infrastructure using fiber Optic Scattering Sensors (광섬유 산란형 센서를 이용한 사회기반시설물의 보안에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Il-Bum;Yoon, Dong-Jin;Lee, Seung-Seok
    • 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.

Electro-optical devices from polymer-stabilized liquid crystals with molecular shape polarity

  • Kim, Sang-Hwa;Chien, Liang Chy;Komitov, Lachezar
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.839-842
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    • 2004
  • We present a fast-switching electro-optical device based on flexoelectro-optic effect in short pitch cholesterics oriented in uniform lying helix texture. The device has two operating modes: amplitude and phase modulation mode. The amplitude modulation mode is a fast in-plane switching of the device optic axis that enables to achieve a high percent of modulation of the transmitted light intensity whereas the phase mode gives a continuous change of the refractive index and thus of the phase shift of the transmitted light. By using a small concentration of diacrylate monomer and selecting the illumination conditions we have been able to create a inhomogeneous polymeric network mostly localized at both substrate surfaces and stabilize the two switching modes.

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Electrical Relaxation in Silica Glasses and Nonlinearity in Electrical Conductivity (실리카 유리의 전기이완 특성과 비선형적 전기전도도)

  • 신동욱
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.36 no.9
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    • pp.923-929
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    • 1999
  • The cause of optical nonlinearity induced in thermally poled silica glass is believed to be the space charge polarization. Since the second order optical nonlinearity (electro-optic effect) can be used in optical switches the optical nonlinearity in silica glass has drawn a large attention. Space charge polarization occurs when an ionic conducting material is subjected to dc electric field by the blocking electrode. Thermal poling performed to induce the optical nonlinearity in silica glass is basically identical to the process generating space charge polarization. As a first step to understand the mechanism of space charge polarization in silica glass hence the induced optical nonlinearity the absorption currents as functions of time were measured for various types of silica glasses and analyzed by the theory of space charge polarization. It was found that the electrical relaxation exhibited a step by the space charge polarization in the relatively long time range and dielectric loss peak showed a maximum at a specific temperature which is depending on type of silica glass. It was turned out that this relaxation might be a cause of nonlinearity in electrical conductivity of silica glass.

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Measurement of the Pockels Coefficient of PZT Thin Films Using a Two-beam Polarization Interferometer with a Reflection Configuration

  • Spirin, Vasilii;Lee, Changho;No, Kwangsoo
    • The Korean Journal of Ceramics
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.409-413
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    • 1999
  • A two-beam polarization (TBP) interfermeter with a reflection configuration for measuring the linear electroptic coefficient is described and investigated experimentally and theoretically. It is shown that a TBP interferometer can be used for measuring the Pockels coefficient of thin film with a strong Fabry-Perot effect. The TBP interferometer technique is used to measure the effective differential linear electro-optic coefficient $re=r_{33}-(n_0/n_0)^3r_{13}$of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin film. The results are in agreement with known data.

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Laser Light Modulation with Resonated Crystal Modulator (공진형 결정체변조기에 의한 레이저광변조)

  • 양인응;김영권
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 1970
  • In this paper, theoretical and experimental study about the light modulation at X-band(9375MHz) micro wave, using the linear electro-optic effect, has been described. The electro-optic crystal, KDP (potassium dihydrogen phosphate)is used for modulator crystals which is composed resonated modulator. Output performances of modulated wave through movable short positions are presented. It was critically respond from 2. And the output modulated intensity was compared with theoretical curve. Consequently, in spite of many problems remain yet, most promissing and more sucessful modulator configurations are compleely given.

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