• Title/Summary/Keyword: SLD

Search Result 68, Processing Time 0.025 seconds

Scientific and Engineering Applications of Full-field Swept-source Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Mehta, Dalip Singh;Anna, Tulsi;Shakher, Chandra
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
    • /
    • v.13 no.3
    • /
    • pp.341-348
    • /
    • 2009
  • We report the development of full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) in the wavelength range of 815-870 nm using a unique combination of super-luminescent diode (SLD) as broad-band light source and acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) as a frequency-scanning device. Some new applications of full-field SS-OCT in forensic sciences and engineering materials have been demonstrated. Results of simultaneous topography and tomography of latent fingerprints, silicon microelectronic circuits and composite materials are presented. The main advantages of the present system are completely non-mechanical scanning, wide-field, compact and low-cost.

A Study on the Visible Light of the Wireless Communication and Its Application (가시광 무선통신 시스템과 응용에 관한 연구)

  • Kang, Heau-Jo
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
    • /
    • v.8 no.4
    • /
    • pp.425-430
    • /
    • 2007
  • Depends on the running dry of the radio resources for the next generation of wireless communication system the estimated possibilities of the visible light which used for the devices such as signal light, the electric display board, guide board and so on applied for the next generation wireless network is the topic to be explored in this paper. Since radiation efficiency utilization for the wireless network has its capacity to become a trend direction we will study also on its application as well as the technique standardization.

  • PDF

Design and Fabrication of a Vacuum Chamber for a Commercial Atomic Force Microscope

  • Park, Sang-Joon;Jeong, Yeon-Uk;Park, Soyeun;Lee, Yong Joong
    • Applied Science and Convergence Technology
    • /
    • v.23 no.2
    • /
    • pp.97-102
    • /
    • 2014
  • A vacuum chamber for a commercial atomic force microscope (AFM) is designed and fabricated. Only minimal modifications were made to an existing microscope in an effort to work in a vacuum environment, while most of the available AFM functionalities were kept intact. The optical alignment needed for proper AFM operations including a SLD (superluminescent diode) and a photodiode can be made externally without breaking the vacuum. A vacuum level of $5{\times}10^{-3}$ torr was achieved with a mechanical pump. An enhancement of the quality factor was observed along with a shift in the resonance frequency of a non-contact-mode cantilever in a vacuum. Topographical data of a calibration sample were also obtained in air and in a low vacuum using the non-contact mode and the results were compared.

An Improved Location Data Management Scheme for GALIS Prototype (GALIS 프로토타입을 위한 위치 데이타 관리 기법)

  • Lee, Ho;Lee, Joon-Woo;Nah, Yun-Mook
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
    • /
    • 2005.07b
    • /
    • pp.211-213
    • /
    • 2005
  • 최근의 위치 측위 기술과 무선 통신 기술의 발전에 따라 위치 기반 서비스에 대한 관심이 크게 증가하고 있다. 기존의 단일 노드 기반 시스템으로는 처리하기 힘든 휴대폰 사용자와 같은 대용량의 객체를 처리하기 위해 제시된 클러스터 기반 분산 컴퓨팅 구조로 GALIS 아키텍처가 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 제시한 프로토타입은 그동안 구현된 기존 GALIS 프로토타입보다 개선된 구조로 SLDS에서 Global $Cell\_ID$를 적용하여 노드의 분할 합병 시 발생할 수 있는 처리 비용을 감소시켰다. 또한 LLDS에서는 필터링을 통해 손실들 수 있는 위치 데이타 정보를 보다 신뢰할 수 있는 데이타로 만들기 위한 기능을 추가하여 질의 시 발생할 수 있는 여러 가지 상황을 대비할 수 있게 되었다.

  • PDF

A study on optical coherence tomography system using optical fiber (광섬유를 이용한 광영상 단층촬영기에 관한연구)

  • 양승국;박양하;장원석;오상기;김현덕;김기문
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
    • /
    • 2004.04a
    • /
    • pp.5-9
    • /
    • 2004
  • In this paper, we studied the OCT(Optical Coherence Tomography) system which it has been extensively studied because of having some advantages such as high resolution cross-sectional images, low cost, and small size configuration. A basic principle of OCT system is Michelson interferometer. The characteristics of light source determine the resolution and the transmission depth. As a results, the light source have a commercial SLD with a central wavelength of 1,285 nm and FWHM(Full Width at Half Maximum) of 35.3 nm. The optical delay line part is necessary to equal of the optical path length with scattered light or reflected light from sample. In order to equal the optical path length, the stage which is attached to reference mirror is moved linearly by step motor And the interferometer is configured with the Michelson interferometer using single mod fiber, the scanner can be focused of the sample by using the reference arm. Also, the 2-dimensional cross-sectional images were measured with scanning the transverse direction of the sample by using step motor. After detecting the internal signal of lateral direction at a paint of sample, scanner is moved to obtain the cross-sectional image of 2-demensional by using step motor. Photodiode has been used which has high detection sensitivity, excellent noise characteristic, and dynamic range from 800 nm to 1,700 nm. It is detected mixed small signal between noise and interference signal with high frequency After filtering and amplifying this signal, only envelope curve of interference signal is detected. And then, cross-sectional image is shown through converting this signal into digitalized signal using A/D converter. The resolution of the OCT system is about 30$\mu\textrm{m}$ which corresponds to the theoretical resolution. Also, the cross-sectional image of ping-pong ball is measured. The OCT system is configured with Michelson interferometer which has a low contrast because of reducing the power of feedback interference light. Such a problem is overcomed by using the improved inteferometer. Also, in order to obtain the cross-sectional image within a short time, it is necessary to reduce the measurement time for improving the optical delay line.

  • PDF

Influence of Strain-Hardening Cement Composite's Tensile Properties on the Seismic Performance of Infill Walls (변형경화형 시멘트 복합체의 인장성능에 따른 끼움벽의 내진성능)

  • Cha, Jun-Ho;Yun, Hyun-Do
    • Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
    • /
    • v.24 no.1
    • /
    • pp.3-14
    • /
    • 2012
  • This paper describes experimental results on the seismic performance of SHCC (strain-hardening cement composite) infill wall for improving damage tolerance capacity of non-ductile frame. To investigate the effect of tensile strain capacity and cracking behavior of SHCC materials on the shear behavior of SHCC infill wall, three infill walls were fabricated and tested under cyclic loading. The test parameter in this study is a type of cement composites; concrete and SHCCs. The two types of SHCC materials were prepared for infill walls. In order to induce crack damages into the mid-span of the infill wall, each infill wall had two 100-mm-deep-notches on both sides. Test results indicated that SHCC infill walls showed superior crack control capacities and much larger drift ratios at the peak loads than RC (reinforced concrete) infill wall, as expected. In particular, due to the bridging actions of the reinforcing fibers, SHCC matrix used in this study would delay the stiffness degradation of infill wall after the first inclined cracking. Moreover, from the damage classes based on the cracks' maximum width in the infill walls, it was observed that PIW-SHD specimen possessed nearly threefold seismic capacities compared to PIW-SLD specimen. Also, from the results on the strain of diagonal reinforcements, it can be concluded that the SHCC matrix would resist a part of tensile stresses transferred along steel rebar in the infill wall.

Real-Time Monitoring and Buffering Strategy of Moving Object Databases on Cluster-based Distributed Computing Architecture (클러스터 기반 분산 컴퓨팅 구조에서의 이동 객체 데이타베이스의 실시간 모니터링과 버퍼링 기법)

  • Kim, Sang-Woo;Jeon, Se-Gil;Park, Seung-Yong;Lee, Chung-Woo;Hwang, Jae-Il;Nah, Yun-Mook
    • Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
    • /
    • v.8 no.2 s.17
    • /
    • pp.75-89
    • /
    • 2006
  • LBS (Location-Based Service) systems have become a serious subject for research and development since recent rapid advances in wireless communication technologies and position measurement technologies such as global positioning system. The architecture named the GALIS (Gracefully Aging Location Information System) has been suggested which is a cluster-based distributed computing system architecture to overcome performance losses and to efficiently handle a large volume of data, at least millions. The GALIS consists of SLDS and LLDS. The SLDS manages current location information of moving objects and the LLDS manages past location information of moving objects. In this thesis, we implement a monitoring technique for the GALIS prototype, to allow dynamic load balancing among multiple computing nodes by keeping track of the load of each node in real-time during the location data management and spatio-temporal query processing. We also propose a buffering technique which efficiently manages the query results having overlapped query regions to improve query processing performance of the GALIS. The proposed scheme reduces query processing time by eliminating unnecessary query execution on the overlapped regions with the previous queries.

  • PDF

Loss Discrimination Mechanism for Improving the Performance of TFRC in Last-hop Wireless Networks (라스트 홉 무선 네트워크에서 TFRC의 성능향상을 위한 손실 구별 기법)

  • Jeong, Kyu-Min;Koo, Ja-Hon;Chung, Kwang-Sue
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
    • /
    • v.16 no.2
    • /
    • pp.227-231
    • /
    • 2010
  • The TFRC is a congestion control mechanism which supports the requirements of video streaming applications and controls its sending rate by using the information such as loss event rate and RTT (round-trip time). However, TFRC has a performance degradation in wireless networks because it performs congestion control by judging all the losses occurred in wireless network as a congestion signal. In this paper, we propose new loss discrimination mechanism which is using ECN in order to solve the performance degradation of TFRC. Through the results of simulation, we proved that the proposed mechanism can improve the performance of TFRC.

A Walking Vibration Sensing System using a Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor (광섬유 브래그 격자 센서를 이용한 보행 진동 측정 시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jaeki;Yeom, Sanghun;Lee, Seoksoon
    • Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
    • /
    • v.11 no.1
    • /
    • pp.22-27
    • /
    • 2017
  • In this paper, a walking vibration sensing system (WVS system) using a Fiber Bragg Grating sensor (FBG sensor) is proposed. The seismic part of the FBG sensor was redesigned for sensitivity enhancement. The external excitation was assumed to be the walking cycle of an adult male. The FBG seismic sensor was redesigned using CATIA and ABAQUS such that the sensor's first mode natural frequency is 3.5 Hz (which is a value near the external excitation frequency). Compared with existing walking vibration sensing systems, this newly created system improves sensitivity 15 times. It is also suitable for intrusion detection applications.

Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters That Predict Gait Function Based on Timed Up and Go Test Performance in the Hemiplegic Stroke Patients

  • Kim, Jeong-Soo;Kim, Jeong-Ah;Jeon, Hye-Seon;Yu, Kyung-Hoon
    • Physical Therapy Korea
    • /
    • v.20 no.4
    • /
    • pp.40-46
    • /
    • 2013
  • The purpose of this study was to determine which spatiotemporal gait parameters obtained during hemiplegic walking could be a predictive factor for the Timed Up and Go test (TUG). Two hundreds nine subjects who had suffered a stroke were recruited for this study. They were participated in two assessments; the TUG test and gait analysis. The relationship between the TUG test and spatiotemporal parameters was analyzed using Pearson's correlation coefficients. In addition, to predict the spatiotemporal gait parameters that correlated most with the TUG scores, we used multiple linear regression analyses (stepwise method). The results show that the normalized velocity was strongly correlated with the TUG performance (r=-.72, p<.001). Additionally, single support percentage (SSP), double support percentage (DSP), step time difference (STD), and step length difference (SLD) significantly were correlated with the TUG test. Normalized velocity, STD, DSP of affected side, and SSP of non-affected side explained 53%, 8%, 3%, 2%, of variance in the TUG test respectively. In conclusion, an increase in gait velocity and a decrease in STD would be effective indicators of improvement on the functional mobility in the stroke rehabilitation.