• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.312-316
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• 2013

A novel fiber-optic sensor system is suggested in which fiber Bragg grating sensors are demodulated by a wavelength-sweeping fiber laser source and a spectrometer. The spectrometer consists of a diffraction grating and a 512-pixel photo-diode array. The reflected Bragg wavelength information is transformed into spatial intensity distribution on the photo-diode array. The peak locations linearly correspond to the Bragg wavelengths, regardless of the nonlinearities in the wavelength tuning mechanism of the fiber laser. The high power density of the fiber laser enables obtaining high signal-to-noise ratio outputs. The improved demodulation characteristics were experimentally demonstrated with a fiber Bragg grating sensor array with 5 gratings. The sensor outputs were in much more linear fashion compared with the conventional tunable band-pass filter demodulation. Also it showed advantages in signal processing, due to the high level of photo-diode array signals, over the broadband light source system, especially in measurement of fast varying dynamic physical quantities.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.1791-1796
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• 2011

가우스 광분포를 가지는 KrF 엑시머 레이저와 위상마스크를 이용해 3dB 파장 선폭이 0.7 nm인 단주기 광섬유 격자(Fiber Bragg Grating)가 제작되었고, 이 격자의 파장에 따른 삽입 손실이 단일파장 광원과 cutback방식을 이용해 측정되었다. 이 격자의 온도 의존성을 확인하기 위해 -10 $^{\circ}C$ ~ 70 $^{\circ}C$ 범위에서 중심 파장의 변화를 측정하였는데 0.01 nm/$^{\circ}C$을 얻었으며 이 값은 온도 변화 방향과 무관하였다. 진폭마스크를 이용해 3 dB 선폭이 14.22 nm인 장주기 격자도 제작되었으며 이 경우는 같은 온도 범위에서 0.044 nm/$^{\circ}C$로 단주기 격자에 비해 온도 의존성이 4배 이상 컸다. 장주기 격자는 광섬유 코팅의 존재 여부도 온도 변화에 큰 영향을 미쳤다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.510-514
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 Mach-Zehnder변조기 양방향 변조를 이용하여 chirped fiber grating의 시간지연을 측정할 수 있는 간단한 시스템을 제안하였다. 시간차를 두고 양방향 변조된 광신호는 RF영역에서 주기적인 간섭무늬를 만들게 된다. 이러한 광파장에 따라 변하는 간섭무늬의 주기를 측정하여 chirped fiber grating의 시간지연을 측정할 수 있다 5cm의 chirp과3.16nm의 대역폭을 갖는 chi ed fiber grating의 시간지연을 측정하였으며 측정된 시간지연의 평균 기울기는 183ps/nm이고 고1.7%보다 작은 오차 범위에서 측정되었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.142-148
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• 2007

기계적으로 유도되는 장주기 광섬유 격자 배열 소자를 제작하고 격자 배열소자의 광 투과 특성을 측정하였다. 격자 배열 소자는 표면에 $690{\mu}m$부터 $780{\mu}m$ 주기까지 $10{\mu}m$씩 주기가 증가되는 격자들이 만들어져 있는 45 cm 길이의 금속 막대와 고무덮개로 구성되어 있다. 외부 압력이 격자 배열 소자에 인가되면 압력이 인가된 지점에만 장주기 광섬유 격자가 형성되고 장주기 광섬유 격자의 공진 파장은 인가된 지점에 의존한다. 그리고 제작된 장주기 광섬유 격자 배열 소자의 특성측정 결과가 다양한 투과 특성을 갖는 광섬유 대역 제거 필터, 혹은 압력센서로 사용 가능함을 보여주고 있다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2003

A new method to control the free spectral range of a long period fiber grating is proposed and theoretically analyzed. As the refractive index decreases radially outward in the silica cladding due to graded doping of fluorine, waveguide dispersion in the cladding modes was modified to result in the effective indices change and subsequently the phase matching conditions for coupling with the core mode in a long period fiber grating. Enlargement of the free spectral range in a long period fiber grating was theoretically confirmed.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.237-243
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• 1999

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the development of fiber-optic sensors based on fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs), which can be made into Ge-doped fiber's core by UV phase mask or holographic methods. A good sensitivity and small size of this sensor make it an ideal candidate for distributed sensing in smart structures or other structural monitoring applications. In this study, fiber optic Bragg grating sensor, which could be applied to measure the absolute strains, was constructed and the strain sensitivity of this sensor was investigated in order to apply to the structural health monitoring. Fiber Fabry-Perot (FFP) filter has been used to detect the optical signals instead of optical spectrum analyzer. It has been convenient to determine the structural strains from the output signal of FBGs. The fiber optic Bragg grating sensor was attached on the aluminum beam near the electrical strain gage to measure the same strain. The relationship between strain and fiber signal was linearly fitted. The strain sensitivity of the fiber optic Bragg grating sensor was determined as $l.57{\mu}{\varepsilon}/{\mu}sec$ from the aluminum beam test.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.51-56
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• 2006

This paper shows the development of flexible force sensor using the fiber Bragg grating. This force sensor consists of a Bragg grating fiber and flexible silicone rubber (DC184, Dow corning co. Ltd). This sensor does not have special structure to maximize the deflection or elongation, but have good sensitivity and very flexible characteristics. In addition, this sensor has the immunity to the electro magnetic field and can be multiplexed easily, which is inherited from the characteristics of fiber Bragg grating sensor. In the future, this sensor can be utilized the tactile sensor system minimizing the sensor size and developing the fabrication method.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.594-597
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• 2023

We have proposed and demonstrated a fiber optic RH (relative humidity) sensor based on fiber Bragg grating covered with a polyimide film. As the polyimide film absolves the moisture in the air, its volume expands. As a result, the grating period of the FBG (fiber Bragg grating) covered with a polyimide film becomes wide and the Bragg wavelength is shifted. The sensor is implemented by fixing a 30 ㎛ thickness polyimide film on the surface of an optical fiber grating using an adhesive, and the characteristics of the device according to humidity are analyzed. The fabricated FBG RH sensor showed a high sensitivity of 0.0186 nm/RH% and a wide measurement range from 30% to 90%. The influence of environmental temperature on the characteristics of the RH sensor was also measured and analyzed. The feasibility of commercialization is presented.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.81-84
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• 2001

We propose the cascade FBG(Fiber Bragg Grating)s to compensate the dispersion, discuss the dispersion characteristics of such cascaded FBGs, compare with the single FBG dispersion compensator. For these, we theoretically consider the sencond- and third-order group-velocity dispersion(GVD) in the single fiber grating using plane wave solution and the coupled mode equation. We also theoretically find the group-velocity dispersion in the cascaded fiber gratings from the results in the single fiber grating and present the optimum disign data of the cascaded FBGs dispersion compensator in the N-channel WDM system through the numerical simulation.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.47-53
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• 2023

We propose a centralized passive-optical-network monitoring scheme using the resonance-spectrum properties of a Fabry-Perot cavity based on fiber Bragg gratings. Each cavity consists of two identical uniform fiber Bragg gratings and a varying cavity length or grating length, which can produce a unique single-mode resonance spectrum for the drop-fiber link. The output spectral properties of each cavity can be easily adjusted by the cavity length or the grating length. The resonance spectrum for each cavity is calculated by the transfer-matrix method. To obtain the peak wavelength of the resonance spectrum more accurately, the effective cavity length is introduced. Each drop fiber with a specific resonance spectrum distinguishes between the peak wavelength or linewidth. We also investigate parameters such as reflectivity and bandwidth, which determine the basic performance of the fiber Bragg grating used, and thus the output-spectrum properties of the Fabry-Perot cavity. The feasibility of the proposed scheme is verified using the Optisystem software for a simplified 1 × 8 passive optical network. The proposed scheme provides a simple, effective solution for passive-optical-network monitoring, especially for a high-density network with small end-user distance difference.