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Method for determining the orientation of extraordinary axis direction Twisted-Nematic Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator (꼬인 네마틱 액정 공간 광 변조기의 이상 굴절 축 회전 방향 결정 방법)

  • 조규보;김수중
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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    • 2004.06a
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 2004
  • 광 정보 처리 특성을 극대화하기 위해 실시간 동작이 가능한 공간 광 변조기를 사용하며 그중 액정 화면은 기존의 공간 광 변조기에 비해 가격이 저렴하고 특히 꼬인 네마틱 액정 화면 공간 광 변조기는 전기 신호에 따라 광을 변조 할 수 있다는 원리에 의해 여러 가지 이론과 설계 방법이 연구되었으며 기본 매개 변수들을 효과적으로 계산하는 방법이 계속 발표되었다. 본 논문에서는 원형 편광 된 광을 꼬인 네마틱 결정을 갖는 공간 광 변조기에 투사 시켜서 검광기에 통과한 세기 분포를 관찰하여 이상 굴절 축의 회전 방향을 결정하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 존스 행렬을 사용하여 수학적 타당성을 부여하였다.

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Character display unit using a phase hologram array and a LC-SLM (위상 홀로그램 어레이와 LC-SLM를 이용한 문자 디스플레이 장치)

  • Kang, Bong-Gyun;Suh, Ho-Hyung;Kim, Nam
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics D
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    • v.35D no.9
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    • pp.62-69
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    • 1998
  • We demonstrated the character display unit using a binary phase hologram array and a liquid crystal-spatial light modulator (LC-SLM). It combines the dynamic property of the LC-SLM with the high-efficiency property of the phase hologram fabricated by photolithography. Experimental results of the proposed unit are presented. The character display unit proposed in this paper has a fundamental and important meaning as new method displaying images by using light, and it will be used in optical information processing and optical communications fields.

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Design of pixelated phase gratings for optical image generation (광영상 발생을 위한 화소형 위상격자의 설계 및 제작)

  • Lee, Deug-Ju;Kim, Nam;Lee, Kwon-Yeon;Eun, Jae-Jeong
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics A
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    • v.33A no.5
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    • pp.132-141
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    • 1996
  • The pixelated phase grating has been studied as a kind of diffraction gratings splitting and input beam into multiple spots. It consists of regular size cells which produce phase delays, and each cell provokes the phase delay up to sixteen levels. We have compared and analyzed the characteristics of multi-level phase gratings, laying streess on efficiency and resulted pattern. Experimental resutls obtained form fabricated grating have been presented, and the real-time method using a liquid-crystal spatial light modulator has been demonstrated through experiments. Gratings making meams with specific intensities have been designed and optical images have been generated by them. In order to specific intensities have been designed and optical images have been genrated by them. In order to decide the phase delay of each cell, optimization conditon consists of diffraction efficiency and target values. One period of phase gratings fabricated with surface relief was less than 256${\mu}m{\times}256{\mu}m$ and size of each cell was 1${\mu}m{\times}1{\mu}m$ surface relief grating has been made by coating photoresist on the glass plate, writing information pattern by Ar laser and developing it. in the experiment for real-tiem processing liquid-crystal display of epson video projector has been used.

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Realization of the Real-time Hybrid Optical Interconnection Using a Genetic Algorithm (GA 학습기법을 적용한 실시간 복합 광 연결의 실현)

  • Yoon, Jin-Seon;Kim, Nam
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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    • v.37 no.9
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    • pp.38-46
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    • 2000
  • In this paper, a grating to apply for the optical interconnection is designed using a Genetic Algorithm(GA) as a robust and an efficient schema. A hybrid optical interconnection system architecture is implemented by the liquid crystal panel as a programmable spatial light modulator. As the result of geometrical transformation to obtain the quantitative data for $3{\times}3$ spot beams at CCD array detector by optical experiment truthfully, the mean of beam intensity as a gray level is 202, the maximum value is 225, the minimum value is 186, and a uniformity is quantitatively $1.93{\times}10^{-1}$ similar to simulation result.

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Effects of Form Errors of a Micromirror Surface on the Optical System of the TMATM(Thin-film Micromirror ArrayTM) Projector

  • Jo, Yong-Shik;Kim, Byoung-Chang;Kim, Seung-Woo;Hwang, Kyu-Ho
    • International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.98-105
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    • 2000
  • The projectors using liquid crystal display(LCD) have faults such as low optical efficiency, low brightness and even heat generation. To solve these problems reflective-type spatial light modulators based on MEMS (Microelectromechanical Systems) technology have emerged. Digital Micromirror DeviceTM(DMDTM), which was already developed by Texas Instruments Inc., and Thin-film Micromirror ArrayTM(TMATM), which has been recently developed by Daewoo Electronics Co., are the representative examples. The display using TMATM has particularly much higher optical efficiency than other projectors. But the micromirrors manufactured by semiconductor processes have inevitable distortion because of the limitations of the manufacturing processes, so that the distortions of their surfaces have great influence on the optical efficiency of the projector. This study investigated the effects of mirror flatness on the optical performance, including the optical efficiency, of the TMATM projector. That is to say, as a part of the efforts to enhance the performance of the TMATM projector, how much influence the form errors of a micromirror surface exert on the optical efficiency and the modulation of gray scale of the projector were analyzed through a pertinent modeling and simulations.

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Optical Visual Cryptography using the Characteristics of Spatial Light Modulation (공간광변조 특성을 이용한 광비쥬얼 크립토그래피)

  • Yi, Sang-Yi;Wi, Sung-Min;Lee, Seung-Hyun;Yoo, Ji-Sang;Kim, Dong-Wook
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.202-207
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    • 2007
  • Optical visual cryptography (OVC) based on binary computer generated holograms (BCGH) is proposed. OVC used optics instead of human eyesight for decryption of visual cryptography (VC). As a result, it was possible to adapt cryptography to an optical system. However, it also had some difficulties because it did not overcome the existing problems of VC completely. This paper suggests a method of optical cryptography implementation based on the phase modulation characteristics of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The problems are evaluated by simulation. This system shows that the noise is reduced and resolution is improved compared with the conventional OVC.

Realization of the multi-phase level CGH according to the multi-channel encoding method using a PAL-SLM (PAL-SLM을 이용한 다채널 부호화 방법에 따른 다위상형 CGH의 광학적 구현)

  • Jung, Jong-Rae;Baek, Woon-Sik;Kim, Jung-Hoi;Kim, Nam
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.299-308
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    • 2004
  • We proposed more efficient encoding methods that can design a multi-channel multi-level phase only computer-generated hologram(CGH) that can reconstruct many objects simultaneously without a conjugate image. We used a fabrication technique for the pixel oriented CGH for designing the pattern of the proposed multi-channel CGH. We investigated the difference of the optical efficiency(η), mean square error(MSE) and signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) of multi-channel CGHs that were designed by three kinds of encoding methods according to the number of quantization phase levels, and we estimated the performance of the pattern of the proposed multi-channel CGH. Generally, as the number of input objects' reference patterns stored in the CGH is increased, the reconstruction quality of the CGH is degraded. But we observed through computer simulation that the diffraction efficiency of the 1-ch CGH is 70%, and those of the 2-ch, 4-ch, 8-ch CGHs are 62%, 62% and 63%. Therefore we found that the diffraction efficiencies of the multi-channel CGHs using the newly proposed encoding method are similar to that of 1-ch CGH. We implemented the CGH optically using a liquid crystal spatial light phase modulator that consisted of a PAL-SLM efficiently coupled with a XGA type LCD by an optical lens and an LD for illuminating the LCD. We discussed the output images that are reconstructed from the PAL-SLM.

Analysis of the Influence of Atmospheric Turbulence on the Ground Calibration of a Star Sensor

  • Xian Ren;Lingyun Wang;Guangxi Li;Bo Cui
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.38-44
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    • 2024
  • Under the influence of atmospheric turbulence, a star's point image will shake back and forth erratically, and after exposure the originally small star point will spread into a huge spot, which will affect the ground calibration of the star sensor. To analyze the impact of atmospheric turbulence on the positioning accuracy of the star's center of mass, this paper simulates the atmospheric turbulence phase screen using a method based on a sparse spectrum. It is added to the static-star-simulation device to study the transmission characteristics of atmospheric turbulence in star-point simulation, and to analyze the changes in star points under different atmospheric refractive-index structural constants. The simulation results show that the structure function of the atmospheric turbulence phase screen simulated by the sparse spectral method has an average error of 6.8% compared to the theoretical value, while the classical Fourier-transform method can have an error of up to 23% at low frequencies. By including a simulation in which the phase screen would cause errors in the center-of-mass position of the star point, 100 consecutive images are selected and the average drift variance is obtained for each turbulence scenario; The stronger the turbulence, the larger the drift variance. This study can provide a basis for subsequent improvement of the ground-calibration accuracy of a star sensitizer, and for analyzing and evaluating the effect of atmospheric turbulence on the beam.