• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.165-173
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• 1994

Retroreflector is different from other reflecting surfaces as it mades reflection in which radiation is returned in directions close to its incoming direction. Because of this characteristics, retroreflectors find many applications in traffic safety related areas. Retroreflectors are usually made using comer cubes, or partially coated glass beads. These glass beads can be made very small, so that they can be coated on sheets or mixed with paints. The design of glass type retroreflector depends on glass bead's shape and material, and its optical characteristics are related to the refractive index of glass. In this paper, a method of anlyzing glass bead type retroreflector's sptical characteristics with respect to shape and optica property of the glass, is presented. First, the coefficient of retroreflection, which is a measure of retroreflector's optical characteristics, is derived analytically using geometrical optics method. And the result is plotted using numerical methods. The results show good match with those obtained experimentally, which were supplied from a commercial retroreflector manufacturer.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제35권12호
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• pp.1135-1142
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• 2007

과학기술위성2호는 정밀궤도결정을 위하여 위성레이저반사경을 부착할 예정이다. 위성레이저반사경은 지상으로부터 방사된 레이저가 위성에 부착된 반사경으로부터 되반사되어 돌아오는 광자(Photon)의 이동시간을 측정함으로써 관측소와 위성까지의 거리를 정밀하게 측정하는데 사용된다. 현재 레이저반사경은 준비행모델을 개발하였으며, 환경시험을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 레이저반사경의 준비행모델의 개발과정을 소개하고, 환경시험 결과를 보고한다. 준비행모델 레이저반사경의 환경시험은 엔지니어링 모델에서 발생하였던 코너큐브프리즘의 파손없이 성공적으로 수행되었다.

• 한국항공우주학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.92-99
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• 2008

다목적실용위성5호는 정밀궤도결정을 위하여 위성레이저반사경을 부착할 예정이다. 레이저반사경은 독일 DFZ에서 개발된 것으로 4개의 코너큐브로 구성된 피라미드 형태를 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 레이저반사경의 유효면적과 link budget에 따른 광자수 계산 및 지상관측소 위치에 따른 광자수 계산 등의 성능 해석을 수행하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.203-206
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• 2001

This paper presents a straightness measurement system for flat and long workpieces. The measurement system consists of a laser optical unit, a CCD camera and processing system, and a carrier system with a stylus. The carrier system accompanies the stylus, which displaces a retroreflector along the surface profile. The optical unit is used to optically amplify the displacement of retroreflector. The CCD camera and processing system finally identifies the vertical displacement of the stylus unit. The developed system is applied to two surfaces: ground surface and LM guide surface. The experimental results show that the developed system can measure the straightness of flat surfaces within sub-micron error.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.107-113
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• 2002

This paper presents a straightness measurement system for flat and long workpieces. The measurement system consists of a laser, a CCD camera and processing system, a carrier system with a stylus, and some optical units. The carrier system accompanies the stylus, which displaces and retroreflector along the surface profile. The optical unit is used to optically amplify displacement of the stylus unit. The developed system is applied to a ground surface and a LM guide unit. The experimental results show that the developed system can measure the straightness of flat surface and moving systems.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2003

This paper presents an on-machine measurement method of flatness error fur surface machining processes. There are two kinds of on-machine measurement methods available to measure flatness errors in workpieces: i.e., surface scanning method and sensor scanning method. However, motion errors are often engaged in both methods. This paper proposes an idea to realize a measurement system of flatness errors and its rigorous application for estimation of motion errors of the positioning system. The measurement system is made by modifying the straightness measurement system, which consists of a laser, a CCD camera and processing system, a sensor head, and some optical units. The sensor head is composed of a retroreflector, a ball and ball socket, a linear motion guide unit and adjustable arms. The experimental .results show that the proposed method is useful to identify flatness errors of machined workpieces as well as motion errors of positioning systems.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.225-229
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• 2014

A reflection-type three-dimensional (3D) screen using retroreflector is proposed to improve the visibility of a projected 3D image while keeping its perspective. For the projection-type 2D display, the diffuser is used to represent the 2D scene, overcoming the limitation of the aperture of the projection lens set. If the diffuser is adopted for the projected 3D image, only 2D images sectioned and blurred should be displayed on the screen. The proposed screen can make the 3D image with the aperture limitation visible to be applied to the 3D image projection systems. The feasibility of the proposed screen is verified by experiments.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 논문요약집
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• pp.288-288
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• 2003

• 위성통신과 우주산업
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• 제13권1호통권28호
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• pp.108-117
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• 2006

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.337-341
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• 2010

In this paper, an extremely low voltage operated micro corner cube retroreflector (CCR) was fabricated for free-space optical communication applications by using bulk silicon micromachining technologies. The CCR was comprised of an orthogonal vertical mirror and a horizontal actuated mirror. For low voltage operation, the horizontal actuated mirror was designed with two PZT cantilever actuators, torsional bars, hinges, and a mirror plate with a size of $400{\mu}m{\times}400{\mu}m$. In particular, the torsional bars and hinges were carefully simulated and designed to secure the flatness of the mirror plate by using a finite element method (FEM) simulator. The measured tilting angle was approximately $2^{\circ}$ at the applied voltage of 5 V. An orthogonal vertical mirror with an extremely smooth surface texture was fabricated using KOH wet etching and a double-SOI (silicon-on-insulator) wafer with a (110) silicon wafer. The fabricated orthogonal vertical mirror was comprised of four pairs of two mutually orthogonal flat mirrors with $400{\mu}m4 (length) $\times400{\mu}m$ (height) $\times30{\mu}m$ (thickness). The cross angles and surface roughness of the orthogonal vertical mirror were orthogonal, almost $90^{\circ}$ and 3.523 nm rms, respectively. The proposed CCR was completed by combining the orthogonal vertical and horizontal actuated mirrors. Data transmission and modulation at a frequency of 10 Hz was successfully demonstrated using the fabricated CCR at a distance of approximately 50 cm.