• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.865-871
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• 2017

In this paper, a gelatin layer was formed on the surface of the twisted fiber-optic couplers fabricated by hydrofluoric acid, which can be used to measure relative humidity. The proposed method of sensors has advantage of low cost compared with the sensors based on the conventional electronic devices and takes beneficial characteristics of optical fibers and light. The fiber-optic sensors presented in this study show a measurement from about 40% to 85% relative humidity, and the experimental results agree well with the calculated results. Based on the design presented in this paper, the structure will enable promising applications in the detecting humidity and various hazardous gases.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.49 no.12
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• pp.683-689
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• 2000

Two-dimensional(2-D) fiber-optic code-division multiple-access(FO-CDMA) system utilizes the optical orthogonal signature pattern code(OOSPC) to encode and decode 2-D data. Encoded 2-D data are spatially multiplexed and transmitted through an image fiber and receiver recovers the intended data by means of thresholding process. OOSPC's construction methods based on expansion of the optical orthogonal code, which is used in one-dimensional(1-D) FO-CDMA system, are introduced. Each OOSPC's performances are compared by using the bit error rate(BER) of interfering OOSPC's of other users. From the results we verify that a balanced incomplete block design(BIBD) construction has the best performance among other mehtods. We also propose a decomposed bit-plane method for parallel transmission and recovery of 256 gray-scale images using OOSPC's constructed by the BIBD method. The simulation result encourages the feasibility of parallel transmission and recovery of multiuser's images.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.367-372
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• 2016

We Designed and Conduct a study on the basic intrusion detection research for outside intruder, which can determine the location and the weight of an intruder into infrastructure, by using Fiber-Optic ROTDR( Rayleigh Optical Time Domain Reflectometer) sensor, which are buried in the sand, were prepared to respond the intruder effects. The signal of ROTDR was analyzed to confirm the detection performance. The weight could be detected as 4 grades, such as 20kg, 40kg, 60kg, and 80kg. which used long distance fiber for intruder detection on wide area. This sensor was possible for application of real-time monitoring of infrastructures.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.626-633
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• 2012

In this paper, sound pressure sensitivity of the fiber optic acoustic sensor according to sensor direction and mandrel material were investigated experimentally. Three different directions were selected as stand, lay, and hole. Hollow cylinder type mandrel dimension is 30 mm in outer diameter, 45 mm in length, and 2 mm in thickness, and about 50 m optical fibers were wounded on the surface of the mandrel. Non-directional sound speaker was used as a sound source. Sagnac interferometer and single mode fiber, a laser with 1,550 nm in wavelength, $2{\times}2$ coupler were used. Based on the experimental results, lay direction's sensitivity is the highest in the frequency range of 2 kHz~4 kHz. 'PTFE+carbon' material is more sensitive than PTFE in the frequency range of 5 kHz~20 kHz. Sound pressure detection sensitivity depends on the mandrel direction and material under certain frequency.

• Korean Management Science Review
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.103-128
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• 1994

Due to the trend of evolution toward a broadband communication network with fiber-optics, the design and operation of fiber-optic network have been received a great deal of research attention recently. Furthermore, even a single fiber link failure in the network may result in severe service loss. Thus, the network survivability becomes an importantissue in planning and designing the network. This survey is on modelling of various fiber-optic subscriber loop network(FSLN) design problems, which are essential ones for providing broadband communication services and B-ISDN services. Models are classified and investigated as either conventional decomposition-iteration approach or integrated design method. To build survivable networks, SHR models are also suggested by ring control schemes. The result of this study will be effectively applied to build a design model for FSLN in the practical applications.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.230-235
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• 2003

A fiber optic intrusion sensor system using the variations of speckle patterns was developed. The intrusion sensor system consisted of an analog unit, a digital control unit, and a DSP unit. Some experiments were carried out using a 500 m length optical fiber sensor. The system detected intruders without missing, and distinguished between cars and persons. When the intruders were cars, the discrimination probability was 100% and when the intruders were persons, the discrimination probability was 90%.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.163-170
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• 2000

Optical frequency modulated fiber optic interferometric sensor was developed to sense the mechanical quantities, such as displacement, strain, force etc. It has been difficult to distinguish whether the increase of the mechanical quantities or the decrease of the quantities measured by the conventional fiber optic interferometric sensors because their signals only have a sinusoidal wave pattern related to the change of mechanical quantities. In this study, in order to measure the mechanical quantifies with the distinction of the changing direction of the quantities, the fiber of optic Michelson interferometric sensor was simply constructed by the laser light modulated with saw tooth wave pattern. The output signal of the sensor was controlled as the sinusoidal wave. The signal processing was based on the counting of the wave number of the output signal during constant time duration. The strain was determined by the cumulative value of the wave number producted by the gage factor. In order to verify the strain measurement capability of this sensor, the strain increase-decrease test was performed by universal testing machine installed with the aluminum specimen bonded with the fiber optic sensor and electrical strain gage. In the result of the test, the strain from the fiber optic sensor had a good agreement with the values from the electrical strain gage.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.467-474
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• 2009

In this study, we describe the feasibility of developing a fiber-optic temperature sensor using a thermochromic material such as 2,4,5-triphenylimidazole or also called Lophine. A sensor-tip is fabricated by mixing of a Lophine powder, which has a non-toxic and hydrophobic characteristics, and an epoxy resin. The temperature change in the sensor-tip gives rise to a change in the optical absorbance of the Lophine, and the transmittance of a light through the Lophine is also changed. We have measured the intensities of modulated lights due to the change of optical absorbance of the Lophine by using of a photo-multiplier tube(PMT). The relationships between the temperatures and the output voltages of PMT are determined to measure the temperature of water. The measurable temperature range of the fiber-optic sensor is from 5 to $30^{\circ}C$.

• Analytical Science and Technology
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.221-227
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• 1995

The fiber optic fluorosensor that shows a specific selectivity for calcium ion is studied. This sensor employs protein Calmodulin(CaM) which forms a fluorescent chelate with $Ca^{2+}$. A dialysis membrane is used to entrap a fluorescein isothiocyanate-labeled CaM solution at the common end of a bifurcated fiber optic bundle. The sensing mechanism of this sensor is based on the shifts in the fluorescence spectrum of metal-calmodulin complexes which FCaM forms a chelate with $Ca^{2+}$. Upon binding with $Ca^{2+}$, CaM undergoes a conformational change which induces a change in the fluorescence of FCaM. This change in fluorescence signal which is measured by photomultiflier tube is related to the concentration of $Ca^{2+}$ for calibration curve. Detection limit for $Ca^{2+}$ and the interference effects by $Mg^{2+}$, $Eu^{3+}$ and $La^{3+}$ for this sensor are studied. Response time and life time for this fluorosensor are also investigated.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.3A
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• pp.203-208
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• 2005

To solve the cost problem of micro/picocell system, the fiber-optic cellular system was proposed. In this system, all channel elements are managed in Central Station, not in each base station. Also, all channel elements in a system can be dynamically assigned when the Spectrum Delivery Switch (SDS) is used. In this paper, we propose and analyze a new intergroup handoff scheme in the fiber-optic cellular system. The proposed scheme supports handoff with keeping current channel. Performance is evaluated with respect to the blocking probability and the handoff refused probability in both systems with SDS and without SDS. The numerical results show that the proposed scheme provides better performance than conventional soft handoff scheme.