• Proceedings of the Korean Society For Composite Materials Conference
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• 2005.04a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2005

The optical fiber is known for the proper sensor which can accomplish the structural health monitoring, Fiber Bragg Grating sensors are being studied more than any other fiber optic sensors due to good multiplexing capabilities. But because the signal stability of FBG sensors can be influenced by the strain gradient, it needs to analyze signal of FBG sensors. Particularly acoording to strain gradient induced by structural geometry or cracks, the spectrum peak of the FBG sensor signal can be split easily. In this paper, the spectrum analysis of the FBG sensor signal was performed and the region of embedment of FBG sensors was determined in $H_2$ pressure vessel by numerical method.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.34-38
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• 2004

A fiber laser of which wavelength was scanned by an intra-cavity FP (Fabry-Perot) filter was used to interrogate a fiber Bragg grating strain sensor array. We calculated the wavelength variation of the fiber laser using quadrature signal processing with an unbalanced M/Z (Mach-Zehnder) interferometer and time-delayed sampling technique. The calculated wavelengths are mapped to corresponding temporal reflection peaks from the sensor array, which enables more accurate and stable interrogation without the problems caused by the FP filter's nonlinear characteristics. Wavelength resolution of ∼20 pm was obtained in our experimental setup, which could have been greatly enhanced with faster phase modulation.

• Composites Research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.30-38
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• 2002

Fiber Bragg grating(FBG) like other optical fiber sensors also has the merit of embedding capability. To increase their actual value related to embedding capability, this paper reported the reliability and signal characteristics of FBGS embedded in composite laminates. The microphotographs of embedded optical fibers visualized the embedding environments of stripped optical fibers and coated optical fibers. Based on these microphotographs and cure monitoring performed using FBGs, we could understand that the main cause breaking the unique Bragg condition of low-birefrigence FBG were residual stress artier curing and reported the stale of stress/strain of optical fiber quantitatively. The cure monitoring also showed the history of splitting peak of a stripped FBG along cure processing. In addition, we could obtain a transverse insensitive grating(TIG) with ease by recoating a stripped FBG. TIG has good advantage for real-time signal processing.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.53-58
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• 2003

We report the formation of inner cladding modes in the optical fiber having an inner cladding structure. The inner cladding layer located between the core- and the cladding- layers of a conventional fiber might have, so called, inner cladding mode(s). The brief history of the inner cladding fiber and the spectral properties of the inner cladding mode are presented. By utilizing fiber gratings, the spectral properties of the inner cladding mode formed in Dispersion Compensating Fiber (DCF) are discussed. It was observed that one resonant peak of a long-period fiber grating was not sensitive to the variation on the cladding surface. With a fiber Bragg grating, a small group of unusual resonant Peaks was observed between the main Bragg Peak and the series of usual Peaks resulted from the mode coupling to counter-propagating cladding modes. Within the DCF by using fiber gratings, it is noted, at least one mode can be coupled to the inner cladding mode and a few outer cladding modes are severely affected by the inner cladding of the fiber.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2005.02a
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• pp.58-59
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• 2005

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.190-191
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.282-283
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• 2004

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2004.02a
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• pp.280-281
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• 2004

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2008

In this paper, the output and temperature characteristics for an optical signal of the fiber bragg grating have been considered. Also, output characteristics which depend on the temperature changes have been investigated for an all-optic add/drop multiplexer based on the fiber bragg grating and Mach-Zehnder interferometer. From the obtained results, they show that the center wavelength of output spectrum shifts approximately 0.01230 nm/$^{\circ}C$ within a temperature range $-30^{\circ}C{\sim}90^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.42 no.11
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• pp.17-22
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• 2005

In this study, we suggested wave-variable Bragg lattice using the characteristic of the Bragg wave that varies according to the change of the temperature imposed on the optical fiber lattice device, and experimented using a simulation test. We analyzed the results of the FBG change according to the change of the temperature obtained in the variable FEG computer simulation and experiment to suggest optimal data. Therefore, utilizing wave-variable optical filter through FBG allows us to combine other channels beyond optical fiber lattice device wave, and can be used as a helpful device in the Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexed system with a channel intervention of 0.08nm(10GHz).