• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.371-375
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• 2013

To improve the utilization efficiency of solar energy, a new solar optical concentrating system composed of a parabolic reflector with a square cross-section, a hyperbolic reflector with a square cross-section and two converging convex lenses has been designed. The proposed method can simultaneously focus and shape sun light into a square pattern on the solar panel. In addition, the total reflection property of photonic crystal within the range of the visible sunlight spectrum has been analyzed. Finally, the relationship between solar concentrating multiples and the diameter of the primary mirror has been discussed.

• Current Applied Physics
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• 제18권11호
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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.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.238-242
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• 2021

In this paper, we present an in line plastic-optical-fiber (POF) temperature sensor based on intensity modulation. The in line POF temperature sensor is composed of a POF, including an in-fiber micro hole filled with reversible thermochromic material, the transmittance of which depends on temperature. The reversible thermochromic material was cobalt chloride/polyvinyl butyral gel. A cobalt chloride solution of concentration 30.8 mM was formulated using 10% water/90% ethanol (v/v) solution, and gelled by dissolving polyvinyl butyral in this solution. Four types of in line POF sensors, with in line micro holes of four different diameters, were fabricated to measure temperature in the range of 25 to 75 ℃. The output optical power of all of these in line POF temperature sensors was inversely proportional to the temperature; the relation between output power and temperature was approximately linear, and the sensitivity was proportional to the diameter of the in-fiber micro hole. The experimental results indicate that an in line POF sensor can be used effectively for measuring moderate temperatures.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.278-288
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• 2021

We propose a characterization method for the scattering property of microspheres using spectroscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT). To prove the effectiveness of the proposed method, we prepare solutions of different concentrations using microspheres ranging from 28 to 2300 nm in diameter. Time-frequency analysis is performed on the measured interference spectrum of each solution, and the resulting spectroscopic information is converted into histograms for centroid wavelengths. The histograms present a very sensitive response to changes in the concentration and size of microspheres. We classify them into three categories according to their characteristics. When the histogram of each category is replaced with the corresponding calculated value of the scattering coefficient, each category is mapped to a different scattering-coefficient region. It is expected that the proposed method could be used to investigate the optical characteristics of a biological sample from OCT images, which would be helpful for optical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.243-246
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• 2012

An off-axis four-mirror-anastigmatic telescope is presented here which is composed of two aspheric surfaces and two spherical surfaces. The entrance pupil diameter is 290 mm and the stop is located at the primary mirror. The effective focal length is 900 mm. The strip field of view for the telescope is $15^{\circ}{\times}0.2^{\circ}$ and if the telescope is launched into an orbit about 400 km altitude, the observed range width will be more than 105 km within a scene without any other auxiliary scanning instrument. The spectral range can be as wide as from visual wave band to infrared wave band in the mirror system. This telescope can be used for environmental monitoring with different detectors whose pixel is adapted to the optical resolution. In this paper, the spectral range is chosen as 3.0 -5.0 ${\mu}m$, and center distance of the pixel is 30 ${\mu}m$. And the image quality is near the diffraction limit.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2005년도 International Meeting on Information Displayvol.I
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• pp.602-605
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• 2005

In this paper, we present a model to calculate the influence of the measurement spot diameter MSD on the viewing angle measurements using a conoscopic instrument. This model is verified experimentally using an EZContrast instrument and the requirements for next generation of displays are presented. We show that last generation of EZContrast XL88W and L80W allowing measurement spot diameter up to 6mm can fulfill the requirements for all the FPD generations up to 80 inches diagonal.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2000

사출성형법으로 제조된 $fheta$렌즈를 주사렌즈로 상요하는 Laser Scanning Unit의 주주사 및 부주사 방향의 빔경을 측정했다. 주주사 빔경의 경우 $62muextrm{m}$~ $68\mu\textrm{m}$로써 설계치와 유사한 성능을 보이지만 부주사 빔경의 경우 $78\mu\textrm{m}$~$115\mu\textrm{m}$로써 꽤 큰 빔경편차( $37\mu\textrm{m}$)를 나타내었다. 사출성형렌즈에서는 냉각.고화시 수축에 의한 형상오차와 불균일 냉각에 의한 내부왜곡(복굴절)이 발생하게 되는데, 이는 결국 파면수차(빔경확대)를 발생시키게 되고 결국 레이저프린터의 화상열화로 나타나게 된다. 본 논문에서는 부주사 빔경편차의 주요인을 밝혀내기 위해 복굴절(편광비) 및 $f\theta$렌즈의 비구면 형상을 측정하였다. 그리고 측정된 비구면 형상치를 CODE-V(미국 ORA사의 광학설계 프로그램)에 입력하여 부주사 상면만곡을 계산하고, 이와 설계 초점심도를 비교.분석함으로써 복굴절이 부주사 빔경편차의 주요인임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.116-124
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• 2007

An optical method to measure the size and number density of soot aggregates in diesel exhaust has been proposed in this study. Two laser beams in co-axial alignment transmit a soot loaded exhaust gas flow, and the transmittance at each wavelength is detected by a photo diode simultaneously. The volume equivalent diameter and number density of soot aggregates in the optical path can be theoretically given by the transmittance values measured at two wavelengths. A test conducted by a single cylinder, 4 cycle, small and DI diesel engine shows that the temporal variations of the size and number density of soot aggregates in the diesel exhaust can be measured by the proposed method at a transient mode operation. It is found that the volume equivalent diameter varied temporally from 70 to 110 nm during the period that high soot concentration is observed. One can also conclude that the optical length longer than 1 m in the dynamic range regarding this method is preferable for measuring soot concentration at the level of $1\;mg/m^3$.

• Composites Research
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2002

미세 직경을 갖는 복합재료 나선형 스프링 (CS)가 광점퍼코드 (OJC)를 보강하기위한 매체로써 개발되었다. 이 스프링의 외경은 약 2~3mm로써 광점퍼코드에 갑작스런 측면 하중으로 부터 광섬유의 손실을 막기위해 삽입 보강할 수 있도록 제작되었다. 섬유 형태 (Y-type)와 밴드 형태 (B-type)의 복합재료 스프링이 제작되어 그 효과를 비교하였다. 측면 하중에 대한 기계적 특성은 동일 직경의 금속 스프링 및 일반 광점퍼코드의 물성치와 비교하여 제시하였다. 실험 결과로부터 복합재료 스프링이 보강된 광점퍼코드의 경우 굽힘에 대한 높은 저항력을 지니고 있음에 따라 광섬유의 내부 손상에 의한 광 손실의 감소률이 낮음을 알 수 있었다 얻어진 주요 결과들은: (1) Y-type의 CS의 경우 B-type과 비교하여 높은 측압 저항력을 지님을 알 수 있었다 (2) 일반 OJC와 비교하여 CS-OJC의 경우 광 손실이 현격이 낮음을 알 수 있었다. (3) 일반 스프링의 측압 하중시의 응력 분포 형태를 제시하였으며. 실험으로부터 얻어진 결과로부터 복합재료 스프링이 보강된 광점퍼 코드의 경우 매우 높은 구조적 안정성을 보임을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.521-526
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• 2005

우리는 국내에서 처음으로 직경 300 mm인 광집속장치를 정렬 및 조립하였다. 이 장치는 주경, 부경 그리고 5개의 연결 거울로 구성된다. 이중에서 가장 중요한 부품인 주경은 각 구조물들과의 조립때마다 발생할 수 있는 변형을 정밀 측정하였다. 또한 사용되는 거울의 개수가 많기 때문에 광학정렬에는 체계적인 정렬 알고리즘을 도입하였다. 최종 조립결과 파면수차는 1.9 wave rms(wave =633 nm)로 예상치의 7배정도 큰 값이었다. 이것의 주원인은 조립 과정에서 발생한 연결 거울들의 변형인 것으로 확인되었다. 본 광집속장치를 정렬하면서 발생했던 문제점들에 대한 고찰은 향후 대형광학계를 만들 때 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.