• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.363-370
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• 2015

The current waveform model of a laser altimeter is based on a Gaussian laser beam of fundamental mode, while the flattened Gaussian beam has many advantages such as nearly constant energy distribution on the center of the cross-section. Following the theory of the flattened Gaussian beam and the waveform theory of the laser altimeter, some of the primary parameters of the received waveform were derived, and a laser altimetry waveform simulator and waveform processing software were programmed and improved under the circumstance of a flattened Gaussian beam. The result showed that the bias between theoretical and simulated waveforms was less than 3% for every order mode, the waveform width and range error would increase as target slope or order number rose. Under higher order mode, the shapes of the received waveforms were no longer Gaussian, and could be fitted more precisely as a generalized Gaussian function with power bigger than 2. The flattened beam got much better performance for a multi-surface target, especially when the small surface is far from the center of the laser footprint. This article provides the waveform theoretical basis for the use of a flattened Gaussian beam in a laser altimeter.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.185-189
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• 2007

평판형 AWG(Arrayed Waveguide Grating) 기술을 이용한 새로운 CWDM(Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexer) 소자의 제작기술을 제안한다. 슬랩 도파로 입력단에 나팔형태를 갖는 도파로에 대하여 광전파방법(BPM)에 의한 전산모사 결과와 투과대역이 평탄화된 20 nm 간격의 CWDM 소자의 제작 결과를 보고한다. $0.75{\triangle}%$의 박막을 사용하였으며, 소자의 삽입손실은 가우시안 형태에 대하여 3.5 dB와 평탄화된 형태에 대하여 4.8 dB를 각각 얻었으며, 3 dB 대역폭은 각각 10 nm 및 13 nm 이상의 결과를 얻었다.