• 우주기술과 응용
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.74-85
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• 2024

기존의 위성-지상 간 정보 전달에 사용하던 전파 통신의 한계가 가시화됨에 따라, 이를 광학 레이저 통신으로 극복하고자 전세계에서 다양한 실험이 이루어지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 인공위성에서 레이저 송출을 담당하는 광통신 터미널(optical communications terminal, OCT)과 지상에서 정보를 수신하는 광통신 지상국(optical ground station, OGS)을 자체 개발하고, 이를 이용한 자유공간 광통신(free-space optical communication, FSOC) 실험을 수행하였다. 30 mm 구경의 광통신 터미널과 250 mm 구경의 이동형 광통신 지상국 망원경, 상용 10 Gbps SFP+ 모듈과 미디어 컨버터를 이용하여, 4K HDMI(high-definition multimedia interface) 신호를 1,550 nm 파장의 레이저에 담아 송출하고 수신하는데 성공했다. 실험의 송수신거리는 각각 3, 9, 20 km이며, 각각의 거리에서 신호의 수신 세기는 +6.1, -2.8, -10.9 dBm이다. 4K HDMI 영상은 끊김 없이 10분 이상 지속됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.396-400
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• 2006

본 논문은 광 패킷 채널을 전송하는 기상에 둔감한 무선광통신방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 광 패킷 채널들을 광섬유증폭기의 포화영역에서 증폭한다. 전송손실이 증가하면, 평균 패킷의 속도나 평균 패킷의 길이를 줄여서, 자유공간에 입력되는 광파워 레벨을 증가시킨다. 실험으로, $8{\times}10$ Gigabit Ethernet 채널을 자유공간에서 2.4 km 전송하였다. 또한 자유공간에서 광 패킷 채널을 중계하기 위하여 1.2 km 지점에 한 개의 이득포화 광중계기를 사용하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2015

In this study, a novel parallel wavefront correction system architecture is proposed, and a model-based tabu search (MBTS) algorithm is introduced for this new system to compensate wavefront aberration caused by atmospheric turbulence in a free-space optical (FSO) communication system. The algorithm flowchart is presented, and a simple hypothetical design for the parallel correction system with multiple adaptive optical (AO) subsystems is given. The simulated performance of MBTS for an AO-FSO system is analyzed. The results indicate that the proposed algorithm offers better performance in wavefront aberration compensation, coupling efficiency, and convergence speed than a stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) algorithm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.13-21
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• 2016

Since the direct-gradient (DG) method uses the Shack-Hartmann wave front sensor (SH-WFS), based on the phase-conjugation principle, for atmospheric compensation in free-space optical (FSO) communication, it cannot effectively correct high-order aberrations. While the stochastic parallel gradient descent (SPGD) can compensate the distorted wave front, it requires more calculations, which is sometimes undesirable for an FSO system. A hybrid compensation (HC) method is proposed by properly using the DG method and SPGD algorithm to improve the performance of FSO communication. Simulations show that this method can well compensate wave-front aberrations and upgrade the coupling efficiency with few computations, preferable correction results, and rapid convergence rate.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.627-640
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• 2021

In a free-space coherent optical communication system, wavefront distortion is frequently beyond the correction range of the adaptive-optics system after the laser has propagated through the atmospheric turbulence. A method of residual wavefront correction is proposed, to improve the quality of coherent optical communication in free space. The relationship between the wavefront phase expanded by Zernike polynomials and the mixing efficiency is derived analytically. The influence of Zernike-polynomial distortion on the bit-error rate (BER) of a phase-modulation system is analyzed. From the theoretical analysis, the BER of the system changes periodically, due to the periodic extension of wavefront distortion. Experimental results show that the BER after correction is reduced from 10^-1 to 10^-4; however, when the closed-loop control algorithm with residual correction is used, the experimental results show that the BER is reduced from 10^-1 to 10^-7.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.329-337
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• 2024

Free-space optical communication technology enables the high-speed data transmission and excellent anti-jamming security. We conduct research on satellite-to-ground free-space optical communication links for high-speed transmission of large-capacity surveillance and reconnaissance data. Since the satellite continues to move along its orbit while the optical signal is transmitted between the satellite and the ground, the pointing angle of the beam from the ground terminal needs to be corrected by Point Ahead Angle(PAA) so that the transmitted light reaches the expected location of the satellite. In this paper, we present the algorithm for PAA estimation and control.

• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.238-246
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• 2024

Modern military operations rely heavily on broadband communication and data transmission. Recently, the rising use of intelligent unmanned technology necessitates more frequencies. Free-space optical(FSO) communication can offer high-data-rate communications with high security and no need for licensing. Therefore, the FSO communication holds significant interest and potential in the defense industry. In this paper, we present design of a FSO communication terminal taking Korean domestic weather conditions into account. The domestic atmospheric attenuation is analyzed using several models and two-year meteorological information for a city in Korea, and this analysis is utilized to design the FSO communication terminal. The design results were verified using an FSO communication test bed, and we achieved an Ethernet bandwidth of approximately 1.86 Gbps at a distance of 1.3 km with the optical amplifier output power of the test bed set to about 20 dBm.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.451-463
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• 2016

The misalignment errors and fluctuations in irradiance due to atmospheric turbulence can severely degrade the performance of free-space optical (FSO) systems. In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic bit error rate (BER) performance and diversity orders of FSO links using parallel transmit-diversity schemes. The BER expressions of FSO links with the switch-and-examine transmit (SET), switch-and-examine transmit with post-selection (SETps), dual-branch transmit laser selection (Dual-TLS), and group transmit laser selection (Group-TLS) schemes are derived, based on an approximate channel model. Then numerical simulations for these four schemes in the region of high average signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) are presented under different channel conditions. The results show that the four transmit-diversity schemes can reduce system complexity and overcome the limitation of peak power, without much BER deterioration.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.141-146
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• 2021

We have evaluated the suppression effect of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation in terrestrial free-space optical (FSO) communication systems using a gain-saturated erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA). The variation of EDFA output signal power has been measured with different amounts of gain saturation and modulation indices of the optical input signal. From the measured results, we have found that the peak-to-peak power variation was decreased drastically below 2 kHz of modulation frequency, in both 3-dB and 6-dB gain compression cases. Then, the power spectral density (PSD) of optical scintillation has been calculated with Butterworth-type transfer function. In the calculation, different levels of atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation have been taken into account with different values of the Butterworth cut-off frequency. Finally, the suppression effect of optical scintillation has been estimated with the measured frequency response of the EDFA and the calculated PSD of the optical scintillation. From our estimated results, the atmospheric-turbulence-induced optical scintillation could be suppressed efficiently, as long as the EDFA were operated in a deeply gain-saturated region.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.239-245
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• 2024

This paper proposes single logarithmic amplification (single-LA) and deep learning (DL)-based fixed-threshold on-off keying (OOK) detection for free-space optical (FSO) communication. Multilevel LAs (MLAs) can be used to mitigate intensity fluctuations in the received OOK signal by their nonlinear gain characteristics; however, it is ineffective in the case of high scintillation, owing to degradation of the OOK signal's extinction ratio. Therefore, a DL technique is applied to realize effective scintillation compensation in single-LA applications. Fully connected (FC) networks and fully connected neural networks (FCNN), which have nonlinear modeling characteristics, are deployed in this work. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated through simulations under various scintillation effects. Simulation results show that the proposed method outperforms the conventional adaptive-threshold-decision, single-LA-based, MLA-based, FC-based, and FCNN-based OOK detection techniques.