• 제목/요약/키워드: Optical quenching

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A Theoretical and Experimental Investigation into Pair-induced Quenching in Bismuth Oxide-based Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers

  • Jung, Min-Wan;Shin, Jae-Hyun;Jhon, Young-Min;Lee, Ju-Han
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • 제14권4호
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    • pp.298-304
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    • 2010
  • The pair-induced quenching (PIQ) effect in a highly doped bismuth oxide-based erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) was theoretically and experimentally investigated. In the theoretical investigation, the bismuth oxide-based EDFA was modeled as a 6-level amplifier system that incorporated clustering-induced concentration quenching, cooperative up-conversion, pump excited state absorption (ESA), and signal ESA. The relative number of paired ions in a highly doped bismuth oxide EDF was estimated to be ~6.02%, determined by a comparison between the theoretical and the experimentally measured gain values. The impacts of the PIQ on the gain and the noise figure were also investigated.

Quenching Effect in an Optical Fiber Type Small Size Dosimeter Irradiated with 290 MeV·u-1 Carbon Ions

  • Hirata, Yuho;Watanabe, Kenichi;Uritani, Akira;Yamazaki, Atsushi;Koba, Yusuke;Matsufuji, Naruhiro
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제41권3호
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    • pp.222-228
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    • 2016
  • Background: We are developing a small size dosimeter for dose estimation in particle therapies. The developed dosimeter is an optical fiber based dosimeter mounting an radiation induced luminescence material, such as an OSL or a scintillator, at a tip. These materials generally suffer from the quenching effect under high LET particle irradiation. Materials and Methods: We fabricated two types of the small size dosimeters. They used an OSL material Eu:BaFBr and a BGO scintillator. Carbon ions were irradiated into the fabricated dosimeters at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). The small size dosimeters were set behind the water equivalent acrylic phantom. Bragg peak was observed by changing the phantom thickness. An ion chamber was also placed near the small size dosimeters as a reference. Results and Discussion: Eu:BaFBr and BGO dosimeters showed a Bragg peak at the same thickness as the ion chamber. Under high LET particle irradiation, the response of the luminescence-based small size dosimeters deteriorated compared with that of the ion chamber due to the quenching effect. We confirmed the luminescence efficiency of Eu:BaFBr and BGO decrease with the LET. The reduction coefficient of luminescence efficiency was different between the BGO and the Eu:BaFBr. The LET can be determined from the luminescence ratio between Eu:BaFBr and BGO, and the dosimeter response can be corrected. Conclusion: We evaluated the LET dependence of the luminescence efficiency of the BGO and Eu:BaFBr as the quenching effect. We propose and discuss the correction of the quenching effect using the signal intensity ratio of the both materials. Although the correction precision is not sufficient, feasibility of the proposed correction method is proved through basic experiments.

허상 디스플레이에 적용되는 레이저 다이오드의 출력 효율과 파장 변이에 대한 연구 (An Optical Quenching and Efficiency of Laser for the Virtual Display System)

  • 지용석
    • 전자공학회논문지
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    • 제53권9호
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2016
  • 본 논문은 허상 디스플레이의 광원으로 적용되는 고휘도 레이저의 접합온도에 따른 파장 변이(an optical quenching) 제어와 광 출력 효율 증대를 위한 제어 방법에 대해 연구하였다. 차량용 헤드업 디스플레이(Head-up Display)와 같은 허상 디스플레이(Virtual Display)는 외부 조도 환경의 영향을 받는 디스플레이 특성으로 인하여 디스플레이 휘도와 광효율 측면의 기술요소에 대한 해결 방법이 요구된다. 태양광의 영향으로 인하여 헤드업 디스플레이는 고휘도 광원에 대한 필요가 증대되고 있으며, 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 고휘도 청색 레이저 광원이 검토되고 있다. 그러나 낮은 레이저 접합 온도 특성의 단점을 갖고 있어 수명 감소와 광효율 감소라는 문제점을 지니고 있으며 특히 청색 파장 변이를 일으키는 원인이 된다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 고주파 펄스폭 변조 방식의 전류인가 방법과 황색 형광 물질을 사용한 칼라 휠 방식의 DMD(digital micro mirror device) 초소형 패널을 적용하였다. 적응형 펄스폭 변조 방식의 주파수와 듀티비 분석과 최적화를 통하여 청색 레이저의 파장 변이를 방지하고 37%의 광효율을 증대 효과를 얻었다.

고망간 주강품의 열처리시 탄화물 석출방지를 위한 임계 냉각속도에 관한 연구 (A Study on the critical cooling rate to avoid carbide precipitation in austenitic manganese steels during quenching)

  • 김정태;곽시영;최정길;홍준표
    • 열처리공학회지
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    • 제12권3호
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    • pp.206-214
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    • 1999
  • The effect of cooling rate on carbide precipitation during quenching of austenitic manganese steel was investigated by optical microscopy, image analyzer and numerical analysis. A computer program based on the finite difference method for analyzing heat treatment processes was developed in order to evaluate cooling rates and the possibility of carbide precipitation during quenching. The area ratio of carbide precipitated in the austenite matrix was measured by the image analyzer, and used to determine the critical point of carbide precipitation. Temperature-dependent critical cooling rates at the critical points were calculated using the present simulation program, The calculated results showed a good agreement with the experimental ones.

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Improved Circuits for Single-photon Avalanche Photodiode Detectors

  • Kim, Kyunghoon;Lee, Junan;Song, Bongsub;Burm, Jinwook
    • JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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    • 제14권6호
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    • pp.789-796
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    • 2014
  • A CMOS photo detection bias quenching circuit is developed to be used with single photon avalanche photodiodes (SPADs) operating in Geiger mode for the detection of weak optical signals. The proposed bias quenching circuits for the performance improvement reduce the circuit size as well as improve the performance of the quenching operation. They are fabricated in a $0.18-{\mu}m$ standard CMOS technology to verify the effectiveness of this technique with the chip area of only $300{\mu}m^2$, which is about 60 % of the previous reported circuit. Two types of proposed circuits with resistive and capacitive load demonstrated improved performance of reduced quenching time. With a commercial APD by HAMAMATSU, the dead time can be adjusted as small as 50 ns.

이온 교환법으로 제조된 평판형 광도파로의 산소광센서의 제작 및 특성평가 (Fabrication and Characterization of an optical oxygen gas sensor formed on the planar optical waveguide prepared by ion exchang method)

  • 정채환;김재성;김원효;이병택;문종하;김진혁
    • 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국광학회 2002년도 하계학술발표회
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    • pp.178-179
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    • 2002
  • 최근에 화학, 임상병리, 환경 감시 등의 분야에서 산소센서의 수요가 점차 증가하고 있다. 이러한 산소 센서 중에 가장 많이 쓰이는 방식은 산화물 전극을 사용하는 amperometric 방법이지만 이 방법들은 장기간에 걸쳐 볼 때 산화물 전극의 오염, 외부 자기장의 간섭 등의 제점 때문에 산소를 측정하는데 많은 어려움이 있다. (1) 따라서 최근에는 빛과 유기염료를 통하여 산소의 농도가 증가할수록 세기가 quenching이 되는 원리를 이용한 산소센서의 연구가 이루어졌다. (중략)

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Optical Sensitivity of TL Glow Peaks Separated Using Computerized Glow Curve Deconvolution for RTL Quartz

  • Kim, Myung-Jin;Kim, Ki-Bum;Hong, Duk-Geun
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • 제43권3호
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    • pp.114-119
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    • 2018
  • Background: The retrospective dosimetry using RTL quartz can be improved by information for an optical sensitivity of sample connected with the equivalent dose determination. Materials and Methods: The quartz sample from a volcanic rock of Japan was used. After correcting the thermal quenching effect, RTL peaks of quartz were separated by the CGCD method cooperated with the general order kinetics. The number of overlapped glow peaks were ascertained by the $T_m-T_{stop}$ method. The optical sensitivity was examined by comparing the change of intensity on RTL glow peaks measured after exposure to light from a solar simulator with various illumination times. Results and Discussion: Seven glow peaks appeared to be overlapped on the RTL glow curve. The general order kinetics model was appropriate to separate glow peaks. After exposure to light from a solar simulator from a few minutes to 416 hr, the signals for peaks P4 and P5 decayed following the form of $f(t)=a_1e^{-{\lambda}1t}$, while the signals for peaks P6 and P7 decayed by the form of $f(t) = a_1e^{-{\lambda}1t}+a_2e^{-{\lambda}2t}+a_3e^{-{\lambda}3t}$. Conclusion: For dosimetric peaks, the times taken to reduce the RTL signal to half of its initial value were 70 sec for the peak P4, 54 s for the peak P5, 9,840 sec for the peak P6 and 26,580 sec for the peak P7, respectively. We conclude that the optical sensitivity of peaks P4, and P5 gives much higher than that of peaks P6 and P7.