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Directional Orbital Angular Momentum Generator with Enhanced Vertical Emission Efficiency

  • Tran, Thang Q.;Kim, Sangin
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.292-297
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    • 2019
  • We propose a ring resonator-based orbital angular momentum carrying vortex beam generator design with high vertical directional emission efficiency. By adopting a vertically asymmetric grating structure in the ring resonator, optimized for enhanced vertical emission, an emission efficiency in one direction reaches as high as 78%, exceeding the 50% theoretical limit of previously designed vertically symmetric grating-assisted ring resonator-based structures.

Photonic Quasi-crystal Fiber for Orbital Angular Momentum Modes with Ultra-flat Dispersion

  • Kim, Myunghwan;Kim, Soeun
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.298-303
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    • 2019
  • We propose a photonic quasi-crystal fiber (PQF) for supporting up to 14 orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes with low and ultra-flat dispersion characteristics over the C+L bands. The designed PQF which consists of a large hollow center and quasi structural small air holes in the clad region exhibits low confinement losses and a large effective index separation (>$10^{-4}$) between the vector modes. This proposed fiber could potentially be exploited for mode division multiplexing and other OAM mode applications in fibers.

The spin of spiral galaxies in different environments

  • Cervantes-Sodi, Bernardo
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.35 no.1
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    • pp.81.2-81.2
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    • 2010
  • The origin of galactic angular momentum is commonly explained as a result of tidal torques of neighbouring protogalaxies on the forming galactic halo. In this context, the environment plays a preponderant role establishing the total angular momentum of present day galaxies. For the last four decades, most of the observational studies focused their attention on the spatial orientation of galaxies in filaments, groups or clusters, leaving behind the magnitude of the angular momentum. We have implemented a simple model to account for the spin of disk galaxies that allow us to obtain an estimate for any galaxy requiring a minimum of information. Applying this method to a sample of galaxies extracted from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, we have been studying angular momentum distributions of galaxies in different environments. In this talk I will present some results for galaxies immersed in different environments, spanning three orders of magnitude in environmental density, galaxies having nearby companions and clustered galaxies.

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Acousto-optic generation of orbital angular momentum states of light in a tapered optical fiber

  • Song, Changkeun;Park, Hee Su;Song, Kwang Yong;Kim, Byoung Yoon
    • Current Applied Physics
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    • v.18 no.11
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    • pp.1441-1446
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    • 2018
  • We demonstrate an acousto-optic mode converter based on a tapered optical fiber to efficiently generate orbital angular momentum states of light. In our scheme an acoustic wave is deployed to the waist of tapered optical fiber where two degenerate $HE_{21}$ modes leading to +1 and -1 orbital angular momentum eigen-modes are resonantly excited. The excitation of $TM_{01}$ and $TE_{01}$ modes is suppressed by enlarging the intermodal index difference between near-degenerate spatial modes. Numerical calculation for optimization of the taper diameter is provided. The experimental characterization of generated states is performed by analyzing the output far-field pattern and the spatial interference fringes with a uniform reference beam.

Excursion model for the spin distribution of dark matter halos

  • Ahn, Jieun;Kim, Juhan;Shin, Jihye;Kim, Sungsoo S.;Park, Changbom
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.38 no.1
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    • pp.34.2-34.2
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    • 2013
  • Spin distribution of dark matter halos in a cosmological N-body simulation is well fitted by a log-normal distribution, but the origin of the log-normal like shape is still unknown. To understand the evolution of spin and the origin of spin distribution, we have studied the change of the angular momentum of simulated halos through their merging histories. First, we traced merging histories of the dark matter halos and measured the probability distribution of the angular momentum changes from a series of simulations. We were able to fit the angular momentum changes with the Gaussian distribution in spaces of M, spin, ${\Delta}M$. Using the simulated merging trees and the distribution of angular momentum changes during the merging events, we can recover the spin distribution of halos over the various mass scales.

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Inertia Estimation of Spacecraft Based on Modified Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum

  • Kim, Dong-Hoon;Choi, Dae-Gyun;Oh, Hwa-Suk
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.353-357
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    • 2010
  • In general, the information of inertia properties is required to control a spacecraft. The inertia properties are changed by some activities such as consumption of propellant, deployment of solar panel, sloshing, etc. Extensive estimation methods have been investigated to obtain the precise inertia properties. The gyro-based attitude data including noise and bias needs to be compensated for improvement of attitude control accuracy. A modified estimation method based on the law of conservation of angular momentum is suggested to avoid inconvenience like filtering process for noise-effect compensation. The conventional method is modified and beforehand estimated moment of inertia is applied to improve estimation efficiency of product of inertia. The performance of the suggested method has been verified for the case of STSAT-3, Korea Science Technology Satellite.

Spacecraft attitude control using quanternion parameters

  • Yoon, Hyungjoo;Tahk, Minjea
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1995.10a
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    • pp.115-118
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    • 1995
  • This paper present an attitude control using quaternions as feedback attitude errors. The Euler's eigenaxis rotation provides the shortest angular path between two attitudes. This eigenaxis rotation can be achieved by using quaternions since quaternions are related with the eigenaxis. The suggested controller uses error quaternions and body angular rates and generates a decoupling control torque that counteracts the natural gyroscopic coupling torque. The momentum dumping strategy using the earth magnetic field is also applied in this paper to unload the angular momentum of the reaction wheels used in the attitude control.

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The Mechanical Analysis of the Hand spring forward and Salto forward straight with 3/2 Turn on the Vault (도마 손 짚고 몸펴 앞 공중 돌아 540도 비틀기의 운동역학적 분석)

  • Yeo, Hong-Chul;Ryu, Jae-Kyun
    • Korean Journal of Applied Biomechanics
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.13-26
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences of the kinematical and the kinetical factors that calculated from preflight to preflight of salto forward straight 3/2 turn motion between skillers and less-skillers. four S-VHS video cameras operating at 60Hz were used to record the performances. Five elite male gymnasts were participated in this study as subjects. Three-dimensional coordinates of 21 body landmarks during each trial were collected using a Direct Linear Transformation method. The raw 3-D coordinates of the 21 body landmarks were smoothed using a second order lowpass, recursive Butterworth digital filter and a cutoff frequency of 10Hz. Load cells attached on the beneath of a board were used to attain the kinetic variables. It was found that the more angular momentum in the longitudinal axis, the less vertical velocity and these angular momentum effected the height of peak in the preflight. Also, it was revealed that the larger angular momentum in the medio-lateral axis was rather than it in the longitudinal axis to increase vertical height and rotation force of the body. For the reaction force of springboard, the vertical and the horizontal reaction force were 16.52BW and 3.45BW, respectively. It was found that the higher value of the vertical reaction force induced the faster vertical velocity and the higher an ar momentum. of the whole body center of gravity.

Dynamics of charged particles around a compact star with strong radiation

  • Oh, Jae-Sok;Kim, Hong-Su;Lee, Hyung-Mok
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.36 no.1
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    • pp.54.2-54.2
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    • 2011
  • It is the conventional wisdom that the Poynting-Robertson effect is essentially the outcome of the interplay between absorption and reemission processes. For a better understanding of the motion of charged particles around a compact star with strong radiation, we reached an alternative interpretation for the Poynting-Robertson effect based on the covariant formalism and found that it is attributed to the combination of the aberration and the Lorentz transformation of the radiation stress-energy tensor. As a general relativistic application of the Poynting-Robertson effect, we studied the dynamics of test particles around the spinning relativistic star with strong radiation. We discovered that the combination of the angular momentum and the finite size of the star generates "radiation counter drag" which exerts on the test particle to enhance its specific angular momentum, contrary to the radiation drag. The balance of the radiation drag and the radiation counter drag renders the particle to hover around the spinning luminous star at the "suspension orbit". The radial position and the angular velocity of the particle on the "suspension orbit" are determined by the angular momentum, the luminosity, and the size of the central star only, and they are independent of the initial position and velocity of the particle.

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Computation of Unsteady Separated Flows Using the Vortex Particle Method (ll) - Stability and Particle Redistribution - (와류입자법에 의한 비정상 박리흐름의 전산 (II) - 안전성과 와류입자 재배열 -)

  • Park, Woe-Chul
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.23 no.10
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    • pp.1223-1228
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    • 1999
  • As part of study on separated flow using the vortex particle method, stability of the method and particle redistribution were scrutinized. Stability was investigated by choosing different combination of numerical parameters. The Gaussian vortex was considered to make the problem simple by eliminating the complexity due to presence of walls. It was shown that the numerical method was stable when $v{\Delta}t/h^2{\leq}0.5$. In all the stable cases the circulation and the linear momentum were conserved. Without the particle redistribution, the angular momentum was severely attenuated.