• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.113-121
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• 2003

In this paper, the transmit antenna for the space feeder used for the phased array antennas is investigated. The multi-aperture horn antenna is proposed as the transmit antenna and the characteristics are verified with the Matlab coding, HFSS of Ansoft Corp., and MWS of CST Corp., The E-plane and H-plane beam patterns of the multi-aperture horn antenna are nearly symmetrical and the sidelobe level of the I-plane beam pattern is lower than that the of general pyramidal horn antenna. The fabricated multi-aperture horn antenna is measured using the near-field measurement system. The measured results show good agreement with the simulated ones.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2008년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.407-408
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• 2008

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2009년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.929-930
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• 2009

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.545-556
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• 2023

This paper introduces volume-sharing multi-aperture imaging (VMAI), a potential approach proposed for volume reduction in space-borne imagers, with the aim of achieving high-resolution ground spatial imagery using deep learning methods, with reduced volume compared to conventional approaches. As an intermediate step in the VMAI payload development, we present a phase-1 design targeting a 1-meter ground sampling distance (GSD) at 500 km altitude. Although its optical imaging capability does not surpass conventional approaches, it remains attractive for specific applications on small satellite platforms, particularly surveillance missions. The design integrates one wide-field and three narrow-field cameras with volume sharing and no optical interference. Capturing independent images from the four cameras, the payload emulates a large circular aperture to address diffraction and synthesizes high-resolution images using deep learning. Computational simulations validated the VMAI approach, while addressing challenges like lower signal-to-noise (SNR) values resulting from aperture segmentation. Future work will focus on further reducing the volume and refining SNR management.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.219-220
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• 1998

Although a single-element synthetic aperture system can produce high-resolution beam profile, it is not a highly practical system because of its low signal to noise ratio against conventional system's. A multi-element synthetic aperture processing has been proposed with defocusing in this paper. A multi element subaperture defocused to emulate a single element spatial response with high acoustic power. The results have higher signal to noise and better contrast resolution than conventional synthetic aperture method.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.803-810
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• 2007

Although synthetic aperture focusing techniques can improve the spatial resolution of ultrasound imaging, they have not been employed in a commercial product because they require a real-time N-channel beamformer with a tremendously increased hardware complexity for simultaneous beamforming along M multiple lines. In this paper, a hardware-efficient beamformer architecture for synthetic aperture focusing is presented. In contrast to the straightforward design using NM delay calculators, the proposed method utilizes only M delay calculators by sharing the same values among the focusing delays which should be calculated at the same time between the N channels for all imaging points along the M scan lines. In general, synthetic aperture beamforming requires M 2-port memories. In the proposed beamformer, the input data for each channel is first upsampled with a 4-fold interpolator and each polyphase component of the interpolator output is stored into a 2-port memory separately, requiring 4M 2-port memories for each channel. By properly limiting the area formed with the synthetic aperture focusing, the input memory buffer can be implemented with only 4 2-port memories and one short multi-port memory.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.5-9
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• 2011

다중모드 경사굴절률 플라스틱 광섬유는 경사굴절률을 생성하기 위하여 첨가하는 미세입자, 불균일한 경사굴절률의 분포, 다른 모드 사이의 광학적인 간섭 등으로 인하여 스펙클 잡음이 크기 때문에, 광섬유 출력 단에서 방사되는 기하학적 광 세기 분포를 분석하여 측정하는 기존의 일반적인 수치구경 측정 방법으로는 수치구경 측정이 매우 어려운 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 다중모드 경사굴절률 플라스틱 광섬유의 수치구경 측정을 위하여 입사 단에서 입사 광의 크기를 조절하여 수치구경을 구하는 새로운 방법을 제안하고, 이를 이용하여 플라스틱 광섬유의 수치구경을 측정하였다. 측정 결과, 기존의 방법으로 측정한 플라스틱 광섬유의 수치구경 값과 비교적 잘 일치함을 확인할 수 있었으며, 제안한 기법이 출력 단에서 방사되는 광세기 분포의 모호함을 배제할 수 있고 입력광의 입사 조건 및 광섬유 결합 효율을 최적화할 수 있는 장점이 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.167-173
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• 2014

A novel multi-oxide layer structure for vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) structures is proposed to achieve higher single mode output power. The structure has four oxide layers with different aperture sizes and thicknesses. The oxide layer thicknesses are optimized simultaneously to reach the highest single mode output power. A heuristic method is proposed for plotting the influence of these variable changes on the operation of optical output power. A comprehensive optical-electrical thermal-gain self-consistent VCSEL model is used to simulate the continuous-wave operation of the multi-layer oxide VCSELs. A comparison between optimized VCSELs with different structures is presented. The results show that by using multi-oxide layers with different thicknesses, higher single-mode optical output power could be achieved in comparison with multi-oxide layer structures with the same thicknesses.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2007년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.281-282
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a method for digital matting using a multi-view camera system. In order to generate multi-view synthetic aperture images, we first move all images obtained from the multi-view camera according to their disparities. After we obtain corresponding trimaps by taking a variance of the synthetic aperture images, we convert the trimaps into multi-view alpha mattes. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can create the composite images successfully by combining foreground objects with multi-view background images.

• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제1권3호
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• pp.337-355
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• 2021

본 논문은 SAR 위성 기술의 현황을 조사하여 향후 우리나라 HRWS SAR (High Resolution Wide Swath Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성을 개발하기 위한 전략을 제안하기 위해 만들어졌다. 현황조사를 통해, 최신 SAR 기술 동향은 SAR 위성 영상을 보다 적극적으로 활용하기 위해 DBF(Digital Beam-Forming), SCORE(SCan-On-REceive), DPCA(Displaced Phase Center Antenna), 간섭계, 그리고 편파 기술을 사용하는 것이라는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 최신 SAR 기술 동향 및 해외 HRWS SAR 개발 사례를 기반으로, 수년 내로 발사가 예정된 KOMPSAT-6(KOrea Multi-Purpose SATellite-6)를 사용하여 DPCA 및 SCORE 기술을 개발하고, 결국에는 전지구를 일주일 간격으로 관측할 수 있는 HRWS SAR 위성을 개발하는 것을 향후 우리나라 HRWS SAR 위성 개발을 위한 전략으로 제안하였다.