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Development of a Laser Absorption NO/$NO_2$ Measuring System for Gas Turbine Exhaust Jets

  • Zhu, Y.;Yamada, H.;Hayashi, S.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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    • 2004.03a
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    • pp.802-806
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    • 2004
  • For the protection of the local air quality and the global atmosphere, the emissions of trace species including nitric oxides (NO and NO$_2$) from gas turbines are regulated by local governments and by the International Civil Aviation Organization. In-situ measurements of such species are needed not only for the development of advanced low-emission combustion concepts but also for providing emissions data required for the sound assessment of the effects of the emissions on environment. We have been developing a laser absorption system that has a capability of simultaneous determination of NO and NO$_2$concentrations in the exhaust jets from aero gas turbines. A diode laser operating near 1.8 micrometer is used for the detection of NO while a separated visible tunable diode laser operating near 676 nanometers is used for NO$_2$. The sensitivities at elevated temperature conditions were determined for simulated gas mixtures heated up to 500K in a heated cell of a straight 0.5 m optical path. Sensitivity limits estimated as were 30 ppmv-m and 3.7 ppmv-m for NO and NO$_2$, respectively, at a typical exhaust gas temperature of 800K. Experiments using the simulated exhaust flows have proven that $CO_2$ and $H_2O$ vapor - both major combustion products - do not show any interference in the NO or NO$_2$ measurements. The measurement system has been applied to the NO/NO$_2$ measurements in NO and NO$_2$ doped real combustion gas jets issuing from a rectangular nozzle having 0.4 m optical path. The lower detection limits of the system were considerably decreased by using a multipass optical cell. A pair of off-axis parabola mirrors successfully suppressed the beam steering in the combustion gas jets by centralizing the fluctuating beam in sensor area of the detectors.

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Widely Tunable SG-DFB Laser Diode (광대역 파장 가변 SG-DFB 레이저 다이오드)

  • 김수현;정영철;오수환;박문호
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.86-87
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    • 2003
  • 단일 소자로 외부의 제어회로를 통해 여러 파장으로 발진파장을 제어할 수 있는 파장가변 레이저 다이오드는 고정된 파장으로 발진하는 레이저 다이오드에 비해 여러 경제적 이점을 가지며 보다 유연한 광 네트워크의 구성이 가능하게 한다. 이러한 이유로 현재까지 다양한 구조의 파장가변 레이저 다이오드가 제안되고 개발되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 새로운 구조의 광대역 파장가변 레이저 다이오드를 제안하였다. (중략)

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Scientific and Engineering Applications of Full-field Swept-source Optical Coherence Tomography

  • Mehta, Dalip Singh;Anna, Tulsi;Shakher, Chandra
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2009
  • We report the development of full-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) in the wavelength range of 815-870 nm using a unique combination of super-luminescent diode (SLD) as broad-band light source and acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) as a frequency-scanning device. Some new applications of full-field SS-OCT in forensic sciences and engineering materials have been demonstrated. Results of simultaneous topography and tomography of latent fingerprints, silicon microelectronic circuits and composite materials are presented. The main advantages of the present system are completely non-mechanical scanning, wide-field, compact and low-cost.

Integrated Cavity Output Spectroscopy Using an External Cavity Diode Laser for the Density Absorption Measurement of Trace Gases (미량 기체의 밀도 측정을 위한 외부 공진기 반도체 레이저 광학공동 적분 투과 분광법)

  • Ryoo Hoon Chul;Yoo Yong Shin;Lee Jae Yong;Hahn Jae Won
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.24-30
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    • 2006
  • Integrated cavity output spectroscopy(ICOS) is a simple, non-intrusive absorption measurement technique that can detect and quantify trace-level gas species. The spectral absorbance of a gas is quantified from the integrated optical output of the modulated high-finesse cavity containing the sample which is irradiated by a wavelength-swept laser source. We constructed an experimental setup by using a tunable single mode external cavity diode laser operating at the wavelength near 765 nm and a Fabry-Perot cavity with length modulation achieved by a piezoelectric transducer where one of the cavity mirrors sat on. In the experiment performed on minute oxygen gas at the wave-length near 764.5nm, we demonstrated the minimum detectable absorption of $8.45\times10^{-8}cm^{-1}$.

An All-Optical NOR Logic Device using a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier and an External Modulation Technique (반도체 광증폭기와 외부변조 기법을 이용한 전광 NOR 논리소자)

  • Byun, Young-Tae;Kim, Sang-Hyuck;Lee, Seok;Kim, Jae-Hun;Woo, Deok-Ha;Kim, Sun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.197-200
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    • 2000
  • All-optical NOR logic device was realized by use of two pump signals with a single wavelength and a semiconductor optical amplifier(SOA). Specially, Mach-Zehnder(MZ) modulator was used for an external modulation of the pump signals. To obtain the sufficient gain saturation of the SOA, pump signals are amplified by an Er-doped fiber amplifier(EDFA) at the input of the SOA. Pump and probe signals are obtained from a DFB laser diode(${\lambda}_p$=1554 nm) and a tunable laser diode(${\lambda}_s$=1535 nm), respectively. The operation characteristics of the NOR logic device are successfully measured and demonstrated at the modulation frequency of 4.83 MHz.

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Analysis of Leakage Current of a Laser Diode by Equivalent Circuit Model (등가회로 모델에 의한 레이저다이오드의 누설전류 해석)

  • Choi, Young-Kyu;Kim, Ki-Rae
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.330-336
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    • 2007
  • A single pixel photon counting type image sensor which is applicable for medical diagnosis with digitally obtained image and industrial purpose has tern designed with $0.18{\mu}m$ triple-well CMOS process. The designed single pixel for readout chip is able to be operated by single supply voltage to simplify digital X-ray image sensor module and a preamplifier which is consist of folded cascode CMOS operational amplifier has been designed to enlarge signal voltage(${\Delta}Vs$), the output voltage of preamplifier. And an externally tunable threshold voltage generator circuit which generates threshold voltage in the readout chip has been newly proposed against the conventional external threshold voltage supply. In addition, A dark current compensation circuit for reducing dark current noise from photo diode is proposed and 15bit LFSR(Linear Feedback Shift Resister) Counter which is able to have high counting frequency and small layout area is designed.

Experimental demonstration of uncompressed 4K video transmission over directly modulated distributed feedback laser-based terahertz wireless link

  • Eon-Sang Kim;Sang-Rok Moon;Minkyu Sung;Joon Ki Lee;Seung-Hyun Cho
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.193-202
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    • 2023
  • We demonstrate the transmission of uncompressed 4K videos over the photonics-based terahertz (THz) wireless link using a directly modulated distributed feedback laser diode (DFB-LD). For optical heterodyne mixing and data modulation, a DFB-LD was employed and directly modulated with a 5.94-Gb/s non-return-to-zero signal, which is related to a 6G-serial digital interface standard to support ultra-high-definition video resolution. We derived the optimal frequency of the THz carrier by varying the wavelength difference between DFB-LD output and Tunable LD output in the THz signal transmitter to obtain the best transmission performances of the uncompressed 4K video signals. Furthermore, we exploited the negative laser-to-filter detuning for the adiabatic chirp management of the DFB-LD by the intentional discrepancy between the center wavelength of the optical band-pass filter and the output wavelength of the DFB-LD. With the help of the abovementioned methods, we successfully transmitted uncompressed 4K video signals over the 2.3-m wireless transmission distance without black frames induced by time synchronization error.

Double-pass Second Harmonics Generation of Tunable CW Infrared Laser Beam of DOFA System in Periodically Poled LiNbO3 (PPLN 비선형 결정과 이중통과법을 이용한 DOFA 시스템에서 증폭된 연속발진형 파장가변 적외선 레이저광의 제 2고조파 발생)

  • Yoo, Kil-Sang;Jo, Jae-Heung;Ko, Kwang-Hoon;Lim, Gwon;Jeong, Do-Young
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.229-236
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    • 2008
  • The optimum conditions of second harmonic generation (SHG) can be successfully achieved experimentally using single pass and double pass methods of a pumping beam. The beam has a power of several Watts radiated by a DOFA (Diode Laser Oscillator & Fiber Amplifier) system, which is a high power CW wavelength tunable infrared laser system, in a PPLN (Periodically Poled MgO doped Lithium Niobate) nonlinear crystal. In the case of a single pass method, the parameters are the wavelength of 535 nm for SHG and the output power of 245 mW generated from the pumping input beam with wavelength of 1070 nm and the power of 2.45 W at phase matching temperature of $108.9^{\circ}C$. The conversion efficiency of SHG was 10%. In order to enhance the output of SHG, the double pass method of the SHG system of a PPLN using a concave mirror for the retroreflection and a pair of wedged flat windows for phase compensation was also presented. In this double pass system, we obtained the SHG output beam with the wavelength of 535 nm and the maximum power of 383 mW at optimum phase matching temperature of $108.5^{\circ}C$ by using an incident pumping beam with wavelength of 1070 nm and the power of 2.45 W. The maximum conversion efficiency is 15.6%, which is more than that of the single pass method.

Widely Tunable Double-Ring-Resonator Add/Drop Filter (광대역 파장가변 이중 링 공진기 Add/Drop 필터)

  • Lee, Dong-Hyun;Lee, Tae-Hyung;Park, Joon-Oh;Kim, Su-Hyun;Chung, Young-Chul
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.216-220
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    • 2007
  • A widely tunable add/drop filter composed of double ring resonators is implemented with high-index-contrast polymer waveguide. To enhance the productivity, directional couplers are designed to have good fabrication tolerance. The refractive indices of the core and cladding in the 1550 nm wavelength are 1.51 and 1.378, respectively. Drop response in comparison with neighborhood peak gets enhanced by more than 2.9 dB at the wavelength where both rings resonate. This filter can be used to build widely tunable laser diode through hybrid-integration with reflective SOA.