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Optics in China: past, present and future

  • Gan, Fuxi
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2000.02a
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    • pp.68-68
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    • 2000
  • In this paper a very brief review of historical development of optical science and technology in China is presented. More attention has been pain on Modem Optics, which developed since 1950s. The recent development of optical science and technology in following fields are introduced. 1. Optical engineering and instrumentation (tracking theodolites, high speed cameras, satellite laser ranging systems, satellite flying attitude control, cameras for remote sensing, astronomical optical instrument) 2. Applied optics (adaptive optics, optical metrology, infrared optics, optical processing, optical holography) 3. Laser science and technology (ultrashort pulse lasers, UV-X ray lasers, high power laser facilities and laser fusion, laser isotope separation) 4. Laser and nonlinear materials (rare earth elements doped laser glasses and crystals, tunable laser crystals, borate series and organic nonlinear crystals) 5. Optoelectronic science and technology (Optical communication, optical data storage, optical computing) The current situation and developing prospect of optical and optoelectronic industry in China are presented. Furthermore it points out that the optical industry could be developed vigorously only if products development capacity is enhanced and new products industrialization is heightened. The main research and education institutions in the optics field in China, as well as the Chinese Optical Society (COS) are introduced.

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All-optical Integrated Parity Generator and Checker Using an SOA-based Optical Tree Architecture

  • Nair, Nivedita;Kaur, Sanmukh;Goyal, Rakesh
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.400-406
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    • 2018
  • The Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (SOA)-based Mach-Zehnder interferometer is a major contributor in all-optical digital processing and optical computation. Optical tree architecture provides one of the new, alternative schemes for integrated all-optical arithmetic and logical operations. In this paper, we propose an all-optical 3-bit integrated parity generator and checker using SOA-MZI-based optical tree architecture. The proposed scheme, able to process input signals at a desired operating wavelength, has been characterized using RZ-modulated signals at 10 Gbps. The maximum extinction ratios achieved at the output of the parity generator and checker are 10 dB and 8 dB respectively.

Smart Optical Fingerprint Sensor for Robust Fake Fingerprint Detection

  • Baek, Young-Hyun
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.6 no.2
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, a smart optical fingerprint sensor technology that is robust against faked fingerprints. A new lens and prism accurately detect fingerprint ridges and valleys that are needed to express a fingerprint's intrinsic characteristics well. The proposed technology includes light path configuration and an optical fingerprint sensor that can effectively identify faked fingerprint features. Results of simulation show the smart optical fingerprint sensor classifies the characteristics of faked fingerprints made from silicone, gelatin, paper, and rubber, and show that the proposed technology has superior detection performance with faked fingerprints, compared to the existing infrared discrimination method.

Theoretical Analysis of the Optical Filtering Effect on a Directly Modulated Reflective Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

  • Shin, Beomsoo;Oh, Sangyeol;Lee, Jaehoon
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.5-9
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    • 2016
  • The modulation bandwidth of a reflective semiconductor optical amplifier (RSOA) is limited by carrier lifetime. Therefore, it is hard to directly modulate an RSOA with high-speed electrical signals. We theorize that an optical filter can act as an optical equalizer, compensating for the narrow bandwidth limitation imposed by the RSOA. By modeling a time-varying RSOA with a modified transfer matrix method (TMM), we simulated 25 Gbps operation of an RSOA with optical filtering effects. We investigated the impact of detuning the center wavelength of the optical filter on the modulation of an RSOA. The numerical results show that it is possible to modulate an RSOA with an optical filtering effect at 25 Gbps without electronic equalization or digital signal processing.

Heterogeneous Computation on Mobile Processor for Real-time Signal Processing and Visualization of Optical Coherence Tomography Images

  • Aum, Jaehong;Kim, Ji-hyun;Dong, Sunghee;Jeong, Jichai
    • Current Optics and Photonics
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    • v.2 no.5
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    • pp.453-459
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    • 2018
  • We have developed a high-performance signal-processing and image-rendering heterogeneous computation system for optical coherence tomography (OCT) on mobile processor. In this paper, we reveal it by demonstrating real-time OCT image processing using a Snapdragon 800 mobile processor, with the introduction of a heterogeneous image visualization architecture (HIVA) to accelerate the signal-processing and image-visualization procedures. HIVA has been designed to maximize the computational performances of a mobile processor by using a native language compiler, which targets mobile processor, to directly access mobile-processor computing resources and the open computing language (OpenCL) for heterogeneous computation. The developed mobile image processing platform requires only 25 ms to produce an OCT image from $512{\times}1024$ OCT data. This is 617 times faster than the naïve approach without HIVA, which requires more than 15 s. The developed platform can produce 40 OCT images per second, to facilitate real-time mobile OCT image visualization. We believe this study would facilitate the development of portable diagnostic image visualization with medical imaging modality, which requires computationally expensive procedures, using a mobile processor.

Various functionalities Based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifer for All-Optical Information Processing

  • Lee, Seok;Kim, Jae-Hun;Kim, Young-Il;Byun, Young-Tae;Jhon, Young-Min;Woo, Deok-Ha;Kim, Sun-Ho
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.165-171
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    • 2002
  • By using a semiconductor optical amplifier and a cross-phase modulation wavelength converter, fundamental all-optical logic gates including NOT, AND, NOR, XOR, and XNOR have been newly proposed and implemented. Realization of these all-optical logic gates will bring up not only all-optical networks but also all-optical computing and signal processing.

Surface Treatment of Ge Grown Epitaxially on Si by Ex-Situ Annealing for Optical Computing by Ge Technology

  • Chen, Xiaochi;Huo, Yijie;Cho, Seongjae;Park, Byung-Gook;Harris, James S. Jr.
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.3 no.5
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    • pp.331-337
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    • 2014
  • Ge is becoming an increasingly popular semiconductor material with high Si compatibility for on-chip optical interconnect technology. For a better manifestation of the meritorious material properties of Ge, its surface treatment should be performed satisfactorily before the electronic and photonic components are fabricated. Ex-situ rapid thermal annealing (RTA) processes with different gases were carried out to examine the effects of the annealing gases on the thin-film quality of Ge grown epitaxially on Si substrates. The Ge-on-Si samples were prepared in different structures using the same equipment, reduced-pressure chemical vapor deposition (RPCVD), and the samples annealed in $N_2$, forming gas (FG), and $O_2$ were compared with the unannealed (deposited and only cleaned) samples to confirm the improvements in Ge quality. To evaluate the thin-film quality, room-temperature photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed. Among the compared samples, the $O_2$-annealed samples showed the strongest PL signals, regardless of the sample structures, which shows that ex-situ RTA in the $O_2$ environment would be an effective technique for the surface treatment of Ge in fabricating Ge devices for optical computing systems.

An Enhanced Optical Flow Calculation Using Scalar Edges (스칼라 경계선을 이용한 개선된 Optical Flow 계산)

  • Yoon, Sang-Oon;Cho Seok-Je;Ha, Yeong-Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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    • v.26 no.7
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    • pp.132-139
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    • 1989
  • Optical flow is important not only for determining velocity and trajectory of the object but also for image segmentation and 3D information. The gradient-based method is mostly used to compute optical flow form image sequences, but it accomanies smoothing effect of velocity vectors. In this paper, an enhanced algorithm for computing optical flow using scalar edge to restrict is also applied to reduce errors both around motion boundary and in the occlusion region.

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Design of Hierarchical Ring-Mesh Optical Networks Considering Cabling Cost (케이블 비용을 고려한 링메쉬 구조의 광통신망 설계)

  • Han, Jung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.1716-1729
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we deal with a hierarchical ring-mesh optical network design problem. The objective is to minimize the total cost of optical add-drop multiplexers (OADMs) handling intra-ring traffic, optical cross-connects (OXCs) handling inter-ring traffic, and cabling cost among OADMs and among OXCs, while satisfying intra-ring and inter-ring capacities. We develop an integer programming (IP) formulation for the problem and devise some cutting planes that partially break the symmetry of rings. Dealing with the inherent computational complexity of the problem, we devise an effective heuristic procedure that finds a good quality feasible solution within reasonable computing times. Computational results demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed solution procedure; the developed symmetry breaking inequalities significantly reduce the computing time to find an optimal solution for small size problems, and the heuristic procedure finds a better feasible solution than that CPLEX, a commercial optimization software, finds for large size problems.

Ultrahigh Speed Reconfigurable Logic Operations Based on Single Semiconductor Optical Amplifier

  • Kaur, Sanmukh;Kaler, Rajinder-Singh
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.13-16
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    • 2012
  • We demonstrate an optical gate architecture using a single SOA to perform AND, OR and NOT logic functions. Simple reconfigurable all-optical logic operations are implemented using RZ modulated signals at 40 Gb/s. Contrast ratio and extinction ratio values have been analysed for the different types of logic gates. Maximum extinction ratio and contrast ratio achieved are 19dB and 17.2 dB respectively. Simple structure and potential for integration makes this architecture an interesting approach in photonic computing and optical signal processing.