• Medical Lasers
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.82-89
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• 2021

Background and Objectives Due to changes in diet and lifestyle, the number of obese people worldwide is steadily increasing. Obesity has an adverse effect on a healthy life, so it needs treatment and improvement. Research related to this is continuously being conducted. Materials and Methods The laser system to compact designed using 808 nm laser diode and Neodymium Yttrium orthovanadate generates a 1064 nm wavelength, the periodically polarized nonlinear crystal pumping laser beam. The pulsed 1064 nm wavelength beam passing through the AO Q-switch is used as the pumping light of the nonlinear optical crystal and is irradiated to the periodic polarized nonlinear optical crystal with a quasi-phase matching period. Nonlinear optical crystals use an oven to control the temperature to generate the desired 1980 nm and 2300 nm wavelengths. Results The 1980 nm and 2300 nm wavelengths generated by temperature control of nonlinear optical crystals are effective for lipolysis. A fiber catheter was used so that the laser could be directly irradiated to the fat cells. In particular, the new wavelength (1980 nm, 2300 nm) can increase the fat reduction effect with low energy (1.3 W). When a laser with a combination wavelength of 1980 nm and 2300 nm was used, an average lipolysis effect of 20% was obtained. Conclusion A mid-infrared lipolysis laser system with excellent absorption of fat and water has been developed. We conducted a princlinical study to confirm the efficacy and safety of the lipolysis laser system, and obtained good results for lipolysis with low energy.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2019

We report development of a frequency-stabilized mid-infrared continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) based on a fan-out grating MgO:PPLN crystal pumped at 1064 nm. The OPO resonator was designed as a pump-enhanced standing-wave cavity that resonates to the pump and signal beams. To realize stable operation of the OPO, we applied a modified Pound-Drever-Hall technique, which is a well-known method for powerful laser frequency stabilization. Tuning a poling period of the fan-out grating of the crystal allows wavelength-tunable OPO outputs from 1510 nm to 1852 nm and from 2500 nm to 3600 nm for signal and idler beams, respectively. At the idler wavelengths of 2500 nm, 3000 nm and 3500 nm, we achieved more than 50 mW of output powers at a pumping power of 1.1 W. The long-term stability of the OPO was confirmed by recording the power and wavelength variations of the idler for an hour.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.457-462
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• 2023

Quantitative measurement of trace ethane is important in environmental science and biomedical applications. For these applications, we typically require a few tens of part-per-trillion level measurement sensitivity. To measure trace-level ethane, we constructed a cavity ring-down spectroscopy setup in the 3.37 ㎛ mid-infrared wavelength range, which is applicable to multi-species chemical analysis. We demonstrated that the detection limit of ethane is approximately 300 parts per trillion, and the measured concentration is in agreement with the amounts of the injected sample. We expect that these results can be applied to the chemical analysis of ethane and applications such as breath test equipment.

• 천문학회보
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.72.3-72.3
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• 2015

We present the mid-infrared (MIR) luminosity function (LF) of local (z < 0.3) star forming (SF) galaxies based on the AKARI's NEP-Wide Survey data. We utilized a combination of the NEP-Wide point source catalogue containing a large number (114,000) of infrared (IR) sources distributed over the wide (5.4 sq. deg) field and spectroscopic redshift (z) data for 1790 selected targets obtained by optical follow-up surveys with MMT/Hectospec and WIYN/Hydra. The AKARI's continuous $2{\sim}24{\mu}m$ wavelength coverage and the spectroscopic redshifts for sample galaxies enable us to derive accurate spectral energy distributions (SEDs) in the mid-infrared. We carried out SED-fit analysis and employed 1/Vmax method to derive the mid-IR (e.g., $8{\mu}m$, $12{\mu}m$, and $15{\mu}m$ rest-frame) luminosity functions. Our results for local galaxies from the NEP region generally consistent with various previous works for other fields over wide luminosity ranges. The comparison with the results of the NEP-Deep data implies the luminosity evolution from higher redshifts towards the present epoch. We attempted to fit our derived LFs to the double power-laws and present the resulting power indices. We also examined the correlation between mid-IR luminosity and total IR luminosity.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.423-434
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• 2016

적외선을 이용한 지표 온도 추정 및 변화 탐지를 위해서는 해당 파장대역의 각 센서에 따른 지표 복사율 추정 및 배경값에 대한 확보가 필요하다. 이 연구는 위성 영상으로부터 한반도에서의 중파장적외선 복사율 산출방법에 대한 제안 및 토지피복 종류별 대표 복사율을 산출하여 한반도 배경값을 제시할 수 있다. 중파장적외선 복사율을 추정하기 위해 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite(VIIRS)의 $3.74{\mu}m$ 파장 대역 밴드4 영상에 Temperature Independent Spectral Indices(TISI) 방법을 적용하여 복사율을 계산하였으며, 또한 이와 비교하기 위해 Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission Reflection Radiometer(ASTER) spectral library로부터 토지피복에 따른 복사율도 계산하였다. 그 결과 활엽수립(0.958) 및 혼합림(0.955) 지역의 연평균 복사율이 가장 높았으며 농지(0.925) 및 자연식생(0.935) 지역보다는 약 2-3% 높게 나타났다. 도심지역의 경우 0.914로 가장 낮으며 연간 변화율이 1%인 다른 지역과는 달리 약 2%로 그 편차가 크다. ASTER spectral library와 비교한 결과 위성영상에서 추정한 중파장적외선 복사율은 동일한 토지 피복에 비해 약 2-3% 낮게 나타나는데, 이는 실제 지표면이 불균질한 점 외 기타 다양한 원인에 의한 것으로 추정된다. 이러한 연구 결과는 중파장적외선 영상을 이용하여 지표온도 추정 및 토지피복도의 계절 및 외부환경 변화에 의한 한반도 중파장적외선 복사율의 변화 특성을 이해하는데 기초 자료로 활용될 것이다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.74.3-74.3
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• 2019

SCUBA-2 North Ecliptic Pole survey, one of the ongoing JCMT large programs, is designed to obtain 850 ㎛ imaging data over ~4 deg² around the NEP based on the AKARI NEP-Wide survey. By August 2019, the program is 50 % complete in terms of observing time, increasing the submillimeter coverage by a factor of 2 with the comparable depth. The rms measured in the deepest center is 0.92 mJy/beam, slightly above the 850 ㎛ confusion limit. With 4 σ detection, the source count is 50 % complete at 9 mJy. The surface density of submillimeter galaxies at this flux limit is 200 deg^-2. Multi-wavelength identification of the 850 ㎛ sources was done through the likelihood analysis based on the far-infrared (250-500 ㎛), mid-infrared (18 ㎛), near-infrared (2-4 ㎛), and optical (i-band) source catalog. We are going to present morphologies and physical properties of 850 ㎛ selected submillimeter galaxies with the help of ancillary multi-wavelength datasets over the NEP area.

• 천문학회보
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.38.1-38.1
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• 2013

We present observational estimation of the infrared (IR) luminosity function (LF) of local (z < 0.3) star-forming (SF) galaxies derived from the AKARI NEP-Wide samples. We made an analysis of the NEP-Wide data with optical spectroscopic information allowing an accurate determination of luminosity function. Spectroscopic redshifts for about 1650 objects were obtained with MMT/Hectospec and WIYN/Hydra, and the median redshifts is about 0.22. To measure the contribution of SF galaxies to the luminosity function, we excluded AGN sample by comparing their SEDs with various model template. Spectroscopic redshifts and the AKARI's continuous filter coverage in the mid-IR (MIR) wavelength (2 ~ 25 micron) enable us to avoid large uncertainties from the mid-IR SED of galaxies and corresponding k-corrections. The 8-micron luminosity function shows a good agreement with the previous works in the bright-end, whereas it seems not easy to constrain the faint-end slope. The comparison with the results of the NEP-Deep data (Goto et al. 2010) suggests the luminosity evolution to the higher redshifts, which is consistent with the down-sizing evolutionary pattern of galaxies.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제39권6_1호
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• pp.1299-1308
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• 2023

기후변화 등으로 인해 전 세계적으로 산불이 점점 잦아지고 대형화되는 추세다. 위성영상 등의 원격탐사를 통한 산불피해 면적 및 피해강도를 산정하는 것은 현장조사에 따른 여러 가지 어려움을 줄일 수 있어 대안 및 보조자료로 활용이 가능하다. 산불피해강도(differenced normalized burn ratio, dNBR)는 산불 전후의 정규탄화지수(normalized burn ratio, NBR) 차이를 통해 산정하며, NBR 수식에 사용되는 영상은 Landsat의 근적외선(near infrared, NIR)과 단적외선(short-wavelength infrared, SWIR) 밴드를 기본으로 한다. 우리나라 위성영상의 경우, SWIR 밴드를 가지고 있지 않기 때문에 산불피해와 관련한 국내 연구들은 해외영상을 사용하거나 우리나라 위성영상을 사용한 경우, 정규식생지수(normalized difference vegetation index, NDVI)를 이용하여 간접적인 방법으로 dNBR을 산출하였다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 Kompsat-3A호(K3A)의 중적외선(mid-wavelength infrared, MWIR) 밴드를 NBR 수식의 SWIR 밴드 대신 대입하여 dNBR을 산정하고, dNBR의 기준이 되는 Landsat을 이용한 dNBR 결과 값과 비교하였다. 그 결과 K3A MWIR을 이용한 dNBR이 Landsat SWIR을 이용한 dNBR에 비해 나타낼 수 있는 값의 범위가 더 넓고 세분화하여 표현이 가능하였다. 따라서 산불피해 지역을 조사하는데 있어 K3A의 활용도가 높을 것이라 사료된다. 뿐만 아니라 본 연구에서는 30m로 열화된 K3A MWIR 밴드를 사용했으나 그보다 높은 해상도의 MWIR 밴드를 사용한다면 본 연구보다 훨씬 더 나은 결과를 얻을 수 있을 것이라 사료된다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.577-582
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• 2019

We report on a continuous-wave (cw) optical parametric oscillator (OPO) optimized for mid-infrared emission above 5.0 ㎛. The OPO is based on a magnesium-oxide-doped periodically poled LiNbO₃(MgO:PPLN) crystal with a fan-out grating design. A linear two-mirror cavity resonating both at the pump and signal wavelengths is stabilized to the pump laser by using the modified Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method. The idler wavelength is continuously tunable from 4.7 ㎛ up to 5.3 ㎛ by varying the poling period of the fan-out grating crystal. Pumped by a diode-pumped solid state (DPSS) laser with a power of 1.1 W at 1064 nm, the maximum idler output power is measured to be 5.3 mW at 4.8 ㎛. The output power above 5.0 ㎛ is reduced to the hundreds of ㎼ level due to increased absorption in the crystal, but is stable and strong enough to be measured with a conventional detector.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제38권6_1호
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• pp.1557-1571
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• 2022

원격탐사 센서가 사용하는 파장 영역 중 중적외선 파장 영역대는 국토, 환경, 재해, 군사 등의 폭넓은 분야에서 넓은 응용성을 가진다. 그러나, 중적외선 영역대의 독특한 특성으로 인하여 관련된 기술개발이 크게 발달하지 못한 측면이 있다. 최근 들어 중적외선 원격탐사 기술의 발전은 새로운 연구분야를 제시하고 있으며, 국내외 적으로 다양한 연구 결과가 보고되고 있다. 본 연구는 최근까지 개발된 중적외선 원격탐사 기술에 대한 연구 결과에 대한 문헌 기록을 분석하여 관련 기술의 현황 및 주요 연구 결과를 체계적으로 정립하여 중적외선 원격탐사 기술의 현황 및 연구동향을 제시하였다.