• Journal of The Institute of Information and Telecommunication Facilities Engineering
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.110-114
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• 2011

The recent development of 4G mobile communication system has led to the rapid technology shift from conventional repeater systems using coaxial cable links towards new fiber optic repeater systems using fiber-optic links between the base station and the outdoor fiber optic repeater. The technical changes have brought up the increasing needs of robust optic links that can be used in harsh environments. Based on the most demanding requirements, a new outdoor optical connector employing 2-channel fiber optics, uplink and downlink, has been developed for the applications where the rugged environmental protection is essential. This paper describes the development of the new connector along with the design criteria and performance results. In summarizing, the prototype optical connectors have undergone extensive laboratory and field test, and they have shown exceptional optical and mechanical characteristics under extreme environmental conditions. The connectors have also exhibited capabilities of providing fast and easy installation while maintaining high performance fiber optic connections.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.441-447
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• 2022

This study describes a novel method for detecting and measuring partial discharge (PD) on an electrical facility such as an insulated power cable or switchgear using fiber optic sensing technology, and a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system. This method has distinct advantages over traditional PD sensing techniques based on an electrical method, including immunity to electromagnetic interference (EMI), long range detection, simultaneous detection for multiple points, and exact location. In this study, we present a DAS system for PD detection with performance evaluation and experimental results in a simulated environment. The results show that the system can be applied to PD detection.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.349-357
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• 2007

The most sensitive part of the installed optical fiber fable is the optical loss variation of the splicing part according to the environmental changes. This paper presents the details of the experimental results of the external environmental changes on optical loss, such as bending, temperature variation, temperature variation after water osmosis and vibration. Through the bending test of optical fiber, rapid increase of optical loss was measured within the radius of 30mm. The result of optical loss variation within the temperature range of $-30^{\circ}C{\sim}60^{\circ}C$ is less than 0.02dB. It was confirmed that the maximum optical loss increased up to 0.2dB in case of water osmosis within the temperature range of $-40^{\circ}C{\sim}80^{\circ}C$. There is small optical loss variation of 0.01dB under the 1mm vibration test. The experimental results of this paper can be used as the reference data for the design of the optical fiber cable splicing enclosure to protect the optical loss variation due to environmental changes.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.1079-1085
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• 2012

Many researchers worldwide have been making a lot of effort to find sustainable clean energy source to replace the current fossil fuels. However, solar energy is considered as the ultimate energy solution to supply the world total power consumption. Light can be used for lighting, heating, wired and wireless communications, etc. Moreover, even light-driven motors which can directly convert optical energy into kinetic energy are studied recently. In this paper, we analyze optical energy delivery through multi-core optical fibers. Our estimation shows that an optical power of 2 kW can be transmitted through a multi-core fiber and an optical power of >10 MW can be transmitted through a bundle of optical fibers with a diameter of several centimeters. It seems competitive compared with the electric power delivery through a copper cable.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.15-24
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• 2007

Two kinds of temperature monitoring technology have been introduced in this study, which can measure coincidently temperatures at many points along a single length of cable. One is to use a thermal sensor cable comprizing of addressable thermal sensors. The other is to use an optic fiber sensor with Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) system. The differences between two technologies can be summarized as follows: A thermal sensor cable has a concept of "point sensing" that can measure temperature only at a predefined position. The accuracy and resolution of temperature measurement are up to the capability of the individual thermal sensor. On the other hand, an optic fiber sensor has a concept of "distributed sensing" because temperature is measured practically at all points along the fiber optic cable by analysing the intensity of Raman back-scattering when a laser pulse travels along the fiber. Thus, the temperature resolution depends on the measuring distance, measuring time and spatial resolution. The purpose of this study is to investigate the applicability of two different temperature monitoring techniques in technical and economical sense. To this end, diverse experiments with two techniques were performed and two techniques are applied under the same condition. Considering the results, the thermal sensor cable will be well applicable to the assessment of groundwater flow, geothermal distribution and grouting efficiency within about loom distance, and the optic fiber sensor will be suitable for long distance such as pipe line inspection, tunnel fire detection and power line monitoring etc.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.9-16
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• 2006

In this paper, we analyzed and measured the electrical crosstalk characteristics of a 1.25 Gbps triplexer module for Ethernet passive optical networks to realize fiber-tothe-home services. Electrical crosstalk characteristic of the 1.25 Gbps optical triplexer module on a resistive silicon substrate should be more serious than on a dielectric substrate. Consequently, using the finite element method, we analyze the electrical crosstalk phenomena and propose a silicon substrate structure with a dummy ground line that is the simplest low-crosstalk layout configuration in the 1.25 Gbps optical triplexer module. The triplexer module consists of a laser diode as a transmitter, a digital photodetector as a digital data receiver, and an analog photodetector as a cable television signal receiver. According to IEEE 802.3ah and ITU-T G.983.3, the digital receiver and analog receiver sensitivities have to meet -24 dBm at $BER=10^{-12}$ and -7.7 dBm at 44 dB SNR. The electrical crosstalk levels have to maintain less than -86 dB from DC to 3 GHz. From analysis and measurement results, the proposed silicon substrate structure that contains the dummy line with $100\;{\mu}m$ space from the signal lines and 4 mm separations among the devices satisfies the electrical crosstalk level compared to a simple structure. This proposed structure can be easily implemented with design convenience and greatly reduce the silicon substrate size by about 50 %.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.351-358
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• 2012

This study is aimed at suggesting optical communication equipment that can deliver high quality video information in high speed, to efficiently handle the flood and water pollution in the river basin. This system is cheaper than existing equipment, and can monitor optical Internet as well as the condition of equipment. Generally, the communication equipment to prevent flood is installed in an unmanned control box and operated by the flood control office situated at the fiver mouth in a long distance section. Therefore, it is hard to promptly cope with communication interruptions, which occur by the cutting or aging of the optical cable. Under the circumstances, this study suggested an efficient system that can deliver high quality video information in high speed (Optical Transmission Convert System) by using optical fiber. The system also solves problems by making use of automatic protection switching (APS) when an accident happens. Its real-time monitoring function gives notice of the problem-occurring points. The system is expected to be widely used in various areas such as intelligent traffic systems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Communication Sciences Conference
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.144-147
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• 1988

대덕망에 Osi 프로토콜을 구현하기 위한 일련의 작업들은 ETRI의 Osi Group 에 의해서 1985년경부터 시작이 되었다. 현재 Osi의 FTAM(File transfer Access and Managenemt) 프로토콜과 ACSE (Association Control Service Element) presentation 계층 session 계층이 상위계층 프로토콜로 구현되었으며, 상위 계층에서 필요한 통신 서비스를 제공하귀 위해서 transport 계층 및 대덕 man의 통신 서비스를 이용하기 위한 intertiace 들이 구혀되었다. 이러한 interface는 순차적으로 jualring optical cable을 control 하여 대덕 man에 위치한 node들 사이에 Osi 상위계층 프로토콜의 서비스를 제공하게 된다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1988.10a
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• pp.683-687
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• 1988

Digitalization of processor and increase of control information need the fiber optic data network which has excellent noise immunity and high-quality, widebaudwidth information transfer capability. It is aimed to offer a fiber optic dataway system for measuring and control the power plant, that has high reliability, high data transmission rate and small cable duct with large transmission capacity.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1999.07g
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• pp.3015-3017
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• 1999

KEPCO is faced with a number of network choice for Distribution Automation System(DAS), such as Power Line, Pair. Coaxial and Optical Cable, etc. The increasing use of DAS requires suitable communication networks. KEPCO has exhausted much efforts to implement its own standard DAS in possible early date. This paper presents the DAS in KEPCO and some of initial design efforts toward KEPCO's DAS at KEPRI.