• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.225-234
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• 2023

Mode-locked pulse lasers have a temporal periodicity up over a short period of time. However, in the time-frequency domain, a pulsed laser with temporal periodicity is described as an optical frequency comb with constant frequency spacing. Each frequency component of the optical frequency comb in the frequency domain is then a continuous-wave (CW) laser with hundreds of thousands of single-frequency-component CW lasers in the time domain. This optical frequency comb was developed approximately 20 years ago, enabling the development of the world's most precise atomic clocks and precise transmission of highly stable optical frequency references. In this review, research on the selective extraction of the single-frequency components of optical frequency combs and the control of the frequency components of optical combs is introduced. By presenting the concepts and principles of these optical frequency combs in a tutorial format, we hope to help readers understand the properties of light in the time-frequency domain and develop various applications using optical frequency combs.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1985.10a
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• pp.43-46
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• 1985

In this paper, the SAW Comb filter which consists of 1 apodized IDT, 2 uniform IDTs, and the grating reflector is studied. The apodized IDT is designed by utilizing the Chebyshev window function, and the output IDTs are arrayed with 0.5$\mu$sec time delay to obtain the Comb characteristics. And also the frequency response below the first peak is sufficiently suppressed by the grating reflector which is constituted 180 electrodes. In experiment the SAW Comb filter is fablicated by depositing Al on the surface of YZ-LiNbO3 substrate. As the experimental result, the frequency characteristics of the SAW Comb filter are consistent with theoretical values in admitted errors.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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• v.51 no.8
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• pp.368-374
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• 2002

In this paper, we introduce a procedure to obtain a equivalent circuit of comb-line band pass filter. By employing equivalent circuits of each asymmetrical coupled line. we composed the full equivalent circuit of comb-line bandpass filter and derived simple design equations for extracting each line's impedance. To show the validity of design equations, we simulated and fabricated a planar type comb-line bandpass filter, which has center frequency 1.8㎓, band-width 50㎒ and four resonators. The resulting filter is very compact, have broad stop band with the second pass band centered at four times the center frequency of the first pass band. The experimental results show exact performances of design specification.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.139-140
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• 2008

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.216-219
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• 2005

In precision length measurements using optical interferometry based on homodyne or heterodyne principles, it is crucial to have frequency-stabilized monochromatic light sources. To the end, we investigate the possibility of utilizing the optical comb constituted by ultrashort femtosecond pulse lasers generated from a gain medium of titanium-doped aluminium oxide $(Ti:Al_2O_3)$. The optical comb is stabilized by locking to the caesium atomic clock, which allows all the modes of the comb to maintain an extremely high level of frequency stabilization to precision of one part in $10^{16}$. Then, high precision length measurements are realized by extracting a single or group of particularly wanted optical frequency components or by adopting a third-party light source locked to the comb. Required measurement system setup will be presented in detail along with experimental results.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.22 no.5 s.170
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• pp.72-79
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• 2005

Gearing system emits inconsistent noise from gear teeth impact in case of gear defects. But, it is not easy for inspection operator in production line to distinguish objectively the defective product. Therefore, customer complains continuously bad noise of the geared motor. Because impulsive signal at low frequency has a tendency not to appear in frequency domain, it is difficult to separate the gear inconsistent noise of defective gear from overall geared motor's noise using general signal processing method such as FFT. In this paper, the method to estimate more objectively the inconsistent noise of gearing system and to measure the quantities is suggested. Suggested method uses Cepstrum, Autocorrelation, Comb Lifter and Inverse Cepstrum by turns to make objective quantities about noise level.

• MALSORI
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• no.60
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• pp.181-190
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• 2006

This paper describes a speech enhancement scheme that leads to significant improvements in recognition performance when used in the ASR front-end. The proposed approach is based on adaptive comb filtering and an MMSE-related parameter estimator. While adaptive comb filtering reduces noise components remarkably, it is rarely effective in reducing non-stationary noises. Furthermore, due to the uniformly distributed frequency response of the comb-filter, it can cause serious distortion to clean speech signals. This paper proposes an improved comb-filter that adjusts its spectral magnitude to the original speech, based on the speech absence probability and the gain modification function. In addition, we introduce the modified comb filtering-based speech enhancement scheme for ASR in mobile environments. Evaluation experiments carried out using the Aurora 2 database demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms conventional adaptive comb filtering techniques in both clean and noisy environments.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.1259-1265
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• 2003

We present a new post-fabrication frequency tuning method for laterally driven electrostatic microresonators using a DC-biased electrostatic comb array of linearly varied finger-length. The electrostatic tuning force and the equivalent stiffness, adjusted by the DC-biased tuning-comb array, have been formulated as functions of geometry and DC tuning voltage. A set of frequency-turnable microresonators has been designed and fabricated by 4-mask surface-micromachining process. The resonant frequency of the microfabricated microresonator has been measured for a varying tuning voltage at the reduced pressure of 1 torr. The maximum 3.3% reduction of the resonant frequency is achieved at the tuning voltage increase of 20V.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.339-340
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• 2008

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.24 no.9B
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• pp.1683-1689
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• 1999

We have implemented Frequency bandwidth expander with frequency upconverting by VCO drift canceller and comb generator. Te output of the low frequency synthesizer which the output frequency is 220~280MHz(Resolution : 5MHz) is expanded to 1660~2140MHz by this system. The phase noise of this system only depends on the phase noise of comb generator and low frequency synthesizer. The phase noise of VCO don’t influence at the frequency expander because the drift of VCO cancel out. When we control the output of VCO, the output frequency of this system is varied by 60MHz x N as filter banker. The switching time and the spurious of the frequency expander is below 3usec, -55dBc respectively. This system easily expands bandwidth additively by expanding the output bandwidth of the VCO. We can apply the frequency expander to very wide band microwave synthesizer which has fast switching time.