• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.22-26
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• 1979

Microlenses with an extremely small radius of curvature are efficiently use d to couple LED/laser diode light into optica1 fiber. We propose a Tapered lens for the highly efficient coupling of the optical fiber communication light souses into the fiber. Ray optical analysis shows that the maximum coupling efficiency is as high as 90 %, Tapered lens with optimum parameters are fabricated by using heating and pulling technique. Experiment shows that this new technique improves the coupling efficiency by two and four times for LED and laser diode, respectively, as compared with the simple flat - end coupling.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.12 s.177
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• pp.100-107
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• 2005

The present work covers a new ray tracing scheme of an injection-molded plastic lens linked with finite element analysis fur injection molding processes. The traditional ray tracing schemes have been based on the assumption that optical property of the lens is homogeneous throughout the entire volume. However, this assumption is quite unrealistic for injection-molded plastic lenses since material properties vary at every point due to injection molding effects. In order to consider non-homogeneous property of a lens, a modified ray tracing method is proposed in connection with finite element analysis of injection molding. Through the analysis of the injection molding process, the distribution of refractive indices can be obtained. This information is then utilized in the proposed ray tracing scheme based on finite element meshes so as to take into account variation of the refractive indices. The effect of mold temperature is also investigated through finite element analysis, and the relevant optical quality is evaluated through the proposed ray tracing simulation.

• Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.165-169
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• 2007

The light guide plate (LGP) of LCD-BLU (Liquid Crystal Display-Back Light Unit) is usually manufactured by forming numerous dots by etching process. However, the surface of those etched dots of LGP is very rough due to the characteristics of etching process, so that its light loss is relatively high due to the dispersion of light. Accordingly, there is a limit in raising the luminance of LCD-BLU. In order to overcome the limit of current etched-dot patterned LGP, micro-lens pattern was tested to investigate the possibility of replacing etched pattern in the present study. The micro-lens pattern fabricated by the modified LiGA with thermal reflow process was applied to the optical design of LGP. The attention was paid to the effects of different optical pattern type (i.e. etched dot, micro-lens). Finally, the micro-lens patterned LGP showed better optical qualities than the one made by the etched-dot patterned LGP in luminance.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.731-735
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• 2008

The fluid ensemble in the liquid lens, which is composed of electrolyte and silicone oil, is the key material system to vary the focal length processing of the electrochemical desorption. In order to characterize the capability of the liquid lens according to response time and optical range, we prepared a fluid ensemble comprising the electrolyte and oil. To elucidate the physical mechanism of the effective response time, we examined the viscosity dependency while satisfying the requirements for the density and refractive index of the electrolyte and oil, respectively. The characterization results indicated that the response time (up and down) is influenced by the viscosity of the electrolyte and oil. On this basis, we prepared a fluid ensemble capable of reversibly adjusting for the focal length of the liquid lens, as well as the response time. The ensemble is applicable to various systems such as micro-lens and optical sensors.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.65-71
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• 1999

The optical absorption spectrum was measured of the tinted powder, tinted solution and tinted lens in the visible regions. The tinted powder was very different with color of tinted lens that the optical absorptions was so higher, composed of the thick-gray color. The optical absorptions of tinted solution were just a little appeared by the energy split of a transition metal ion, so constructed with each color space. The optical absorptions of the tinted lens were appeared with the energy split peaks to a transition metal ion, so its were affected by the color constructions. The optical absorption peaks of each lens were depend on the tinted time. Blue color lens had a lot of absorption in the short wavelength regions than 500nm, and had a little appeared in the high wavelength regions than 500nm. In case of a yellow color, the optical absorptions were appeared quite contrary to the blue color, so these colors had the opponent-colors each other. In case of green color, the optical absorptions had a high in the both edges, had a low in the middle regions. In the pink color, by the optical absorptions form of quite contrary to the green color it, these colors had the opponent-colors each other. In the brown color, the optical absorptions had a maximum values in the short wavelength regions, and it gradually decreased goes by the long wavelength regions.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.63-68
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• 2003

The aspherical lenses are used as objective lens of optical pickup. To examine the design factor the sample product is made before manufacturing of injection mould of lens. The optimum cutting condition of PMMA lens sample with ultra precision SPDT, the roam spindle speed, the depth of cut, the feedrate are found. The demanded surface roughness 100m Ra, aspherical form error $0.5{\mu}m$ P-V for aspherical lens of optical data storage device are satisfied.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.1429-1434
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• 2003

A number of dust particles are intruded into ODD(Optical disk drive) due to the flow caused by disk rotation and are adhered to a lens or disk surface. The space between the disk and the lens is being reduced. Someone indicates the problems of this drive that are relatively small data storing capacity and slow access time. In recent, the problems of this optical disk drive mentioned above are being solved by adding the speed of the disk's revolution, making the actuator high-speed or light, and making the beam spot size smaller than making the space narrow between disk and lens. These particle contamination affects seriously RF Signal, readout signal in an ODD. Especially, the affected parts by a particle contamination in an ODD's readout signal are objective lens and media.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.280-283
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• 2004

Micro-lens patterned micro-mold fabrication method for Light Guiding Plate(LGP), kernel part of LCD-BLU(Back Light Unit), was presented. Instead of erosion dot pattern for LGP optical design, micro-lens pattern, fabricated by LIGA-reflow process, was applied. Optical pattern design method was also developed not only for negative pattern LGP, but also positive pattern LGP. During injection molding process, experimental study was conducted to improve replication quality and brightness of ${\sim}50um$ micro-lens pattern mold. The effect of mold temperature for the replication quality of micro-lens array was studied.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.7-12
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• 2018

In the field of machine vision, a variety of lenses are used to inspect a product for defects. Only part of the appearance of an object can be photographed with a general lens. Optical components such as mirrors, multiple lenses and cameras are required to inspect the entire exterior. This increases the size of the optical system, and has the disadvantage of high cost. In this paper, we design a hypercentric lens, which can photograph the top and side of an object, and various sizes of objects while maintaining the image size. Also, the validity of the design is verified through the performance analysis of the product.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.405-410
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• 2005

In this paper, the front radiuses of curvature of spherical spectacle lenses in the cosmetic and optical point of view are investigated and are calculated using Zinken-Sommer condition. The optical power of all spherical spectacle lens shows good quality at the test using autometic lensmeter. However the front radiuses of curvature of spherical spectacle lenses are quite different depending on the lens companies. The front radius of curvature of those lenses is larger than that calculated using Zinken-Sommer condition. We know that the front radius of curvature of commercial spectacle lens is emphasized more cosmetic aspect than optical point of view.