• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1995년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.508-510
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• 1995

A fiber-optic pressure sensor is fabricated with a photoelastic glass material. To remove the influence of external pertubation along the optical fiber, a new referencing technique is proposed by using two light sources. LED with 870nm wavelength is used as light source for reference signal, and LED with 660nm wavelength is used as light source for modulation signal. The fiber-optic pressure sensor system shows good linearity within the pressure range of 0 to 5 $kg/cm^2$.

• JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2011

This paper describes 250-Mb/s fiber optic transmitter and receiver ICs for plastic optical fiber applications using a$ 0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. Simple signal and light detection schemes are introduced for power reduction in sleep mode. The transmitter converts non-return-to-zero digital data into 650-nm visible-red light signal and the receiver recovers the digital data from the incident light signal through up to 50-m plastic optical fiber. The transmitter and receiver ICs occupy only 0.62 $mm^2$ of area including electrostatic discharge protection diodes and bonding pads. The transmitter IC consumes 23 mA with 20 mA of LED driving currents, and the receiver IC consumes 16 mA with 4 mA of output driving currents at 250 Mb/s of data rate from a 3.3-V supply in active mode. In sleep mode, the transmitter and receiver ICs consume only 25 ${\mu}A$ and 40 ${\mu}A$, respectively.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.459-465
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• 2014

Visible light communications (VLC) using the intensity modulation of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) provides a new communication medium to overcome the shortage of radio spectrum, and allows reuse of LED lighting infrastructures. Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) was introduced to VLC for its merits in mitigating the fading effects resulting from delay spread, and in avoiding low-frequency ambient interference. Noise and clipping are two major factors that degrade the performance of OFDM in VLC. A larger signal easily overcomes noise, but experiences impairment by clipping. Therefore, degradation due to clipping has a trade-off relationship with that due to noise, depending on the signal amplitude of OFDM. In this paper, the optimal signal amplitude in the trade-off is obtained by simulation when the dimming and LED intensity are given. The former indicates a user's requirement for lighting, and the latter represents the channel quality. The required LED intensity-to-noise ratio, as the channel quality that guarantees dimming as well as an adequate bit-error rate (BER), is also discussed.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.226-233
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• 2014

This paper presents an external light evasion method that rectifies the problem of misrecognition due to external lighting. The fundamental concept underlying the proposed method involves recognition of the differences between two images and elimination of the desynchronized external light by synchronizing the image sensor and inner light source of the optical touch screen. A range of artificial indoor light sources and natural sunlight are assessed. The proposed system synchronizes with a Vertical Synchronization (VSYNC) signal and the light source drive signal of the image sensor. Therefore, it can display synchronized light of the acquired image through the image sensor and remove external light that is not from the light source. A subtraction operation is used to find the differences and the absolute value of the result is utilized; hence, the order is irrelevant. The resulting image, which displays only a touched blob on the touchscreen, was created after image processing for coordination recognition and was then supplied to a coordination extraction algorithm.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.123-128
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• 2000

Phosphorylation of cellular proteins is a key regulatory mehanism for signal transduction pathway in living cells. Phytochrome, a red/far-red light photoreceptor in plants, is known to employ protein phosphorylation for its light signaling, although its detauked mechanism is still ambiguous. This study is intended to identify the phosphoproteins and protein kinases that are regulated by phytochrome, by employing transgenic rice seedlings that overexpress Arabidopsis phytochrome A. Red light stimulated phsophorylation of a 70 kDa protein and far-red light negated the effect. The red light induced phosphotylation of the 70 kDa protein was strongly activated by heparin and inhibited by poly-L-lysine, suggesting that the 70 kDa protein phosphorylating kinase belongs to GSK-3/SHAGGY protein kinase that has functional roles in establishing cell fate and pattern formation in Drosophila. Taken together with the fact that phytochrome controls plant development, these results may suggest that a GSK-3/SHAGGY-related protein kinase in plant(ASK) is likely to be involved in phytochrome signal transduction.

• Plant Biotechnology Reports
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.59-73
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• 2008

Several aspects of photoperception and light signal transduction have been elucidated by studies with model plants. However, the information available for economically important crops, such as Fabaceae species, is scarce. In order to incorporate the existing genomic tools into a strategy to advance soybean research, we have investigated publicly available expressed sequence tag (EST) sequence databases in order to identify Glycine max sequences related to genes involved in light-regulated developmental control in model plants. Approximately 38,000 sequences from open-access databases were investigated, and all bona fide and putative photoreceptor gene families were found in soybean sequence databases. We have identified G. max orthologs for several families of transcriptional regulators and cytoplasmic proteins mediating photoreceptor-induced responses, although some important Arabidopsis phytochrome-signaling components are absent. Moreover, soybean and Arabidopsis genefamily homologs appear to have undergone a distinct expansion process in some cases. We propose a working model of light perception, signal transduction and response-eliciting in G. max, based on the identified key components from Arabidopsis. These results demonstrate the power of comparative genomics between model systems and crop species to elucidate several aspects of plant physiology and metabolism.

• 한국컴퓨터산업학회논문지
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1005-1016
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• 2004

기존 교통신호등은 최적 교통신호주기기능을 상실했다. 기존 교통신호주기는 현시 교통주기와 30% -45% 가 일치하지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 평균 주행속도를 개선하고 평균 승용차 대기시간을 단축하기위해서 전자 교통신호등을 본 논문에서 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 실제 교통상황의 교통량, 출발 지연시간, 자동차속도 등의 40가지 센서 입력조건들을 저장하는 방법을 연구 중이다. 지능형 퍼지 기법을 이용하면, 서로 다른 10개의 교차로에 서 최 적의 녹색시간을 예측할 수 있다. 컴퓨터 모의실험 결과, 자동차 길이를 고려하지 않은 기존 교통신호등보다 . 오프셋 및 평균 자동차 대기시간을 줄일 수 있음이 입증되었다.

• 센서학회지
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.316-326
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 백색광 간섭현상 (white light interferometry)을 위한 신호처리 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘으로 간섭기의 광경로 절대길이 (absolute optical path length)를 정확하게 측정할 수 있다. 그리고 제안하는 알고리즘은 간섭 무늬 (fringe scan)의 상호 상관관계 함수 (cross-correlation function)와 가설 검증을 사용한다. 가설 검증은 간섭 무늬의 상호 상관관계 함수가 대칭이 되는 봉우리를 영차 간섭 봉우리 (zero order fringe peak) 후보자로 선정함으로써 영차 간섭 봉우리를 오판할 확률을 줄인다. 산탄잡음(shot noise)이 제안된 알고리즘의 성능에 미치는 영향을 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통하여 조사하였다. 모의 실험결과와 보외법 (extrapolation)을 사용하여 신호대산탄잡음비 (signal-to-shot noise ratio)가 31 dB 보다 클 때의 알고리즘의 성능을 예측하였다. 간섭 봉우리의 세 가지 매개변수 변화 (신호대산탄잡음비, 간섭 스캔 샘플링율 광원의 가간섭성 길이)에 따른 영차 간섭 봉우리 추정 오차를 계산하였다. 모의 실험 결과를 통하여 제안한 알고리즘이 영차 간섭 무늬 봉우리를 정확하게 판별할 수 있음을 보여주었다. 제안하는 신호처리 알고리즘은 소프트웨어적인 기법으로서 경제적이고 속도가 빠르며 간단한 알고리즘이다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.105-110
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• 2019

The visible-light communication (VLC) system is a promising candidate to fulfill the present and future demands for a high-speed, cost-effective, and larger-bandwidth communication system. VLC modulates the visible-light signals from solid-state LEDs to transmit data between transmitter and receiver, but the broadcasting and the line-of-sight propagation nature of visible-light signals make VLC a communication system with a limited operating range. We present a novel architecture to increase the operating range of VLC. In our proposed architecture, we guide the visible-light signals through the fiber and amplify the dissipated signals using visible-light fiber amplifiers (VLFAs), which are the most important and the novel devices needed for the proposed architecture of the VLC. Therefore, we design, analyze, and apply a VLFA to VLC, to overcome the inherent drawbacks of VLC. Numerical results show that under given constant conditions, the VLFA can amplify the signal up to 35.0 dB. We have analyzed the effects of fiber length, active ion concentration, pump power, and input signal power on the gain and the noise figure (NF).

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1237-1244
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 모든 휴대폰이 가지고 있는 액정의 광원을 활용하여 데이터 전송및 비용처리를 할 수 있는 디지털 카드시스템을 제안한다. 즉, 휴대폰의 내장된 VM(Vurtual Machine)OS에 소프트웨어방식으로 카드번호와 같은 데이터를 내장한 버츄얼 모바일 카드를 생성하여 휴대폰에 탑재하고, 탑재된 모바일 카드에 휴대폰에 장착된 발광장치(LCD 백라이트 혹은 유기 EL)를 모바일 카드의 제어모듈이 모바일 카드의 내장 데이터를 펄스 선호로 발광하게 함으로써, 카드번호와 같은 데이터를 전용리더기로 수신토록 하는 모바일 디지털 카드 시스템이다. 제안하는 기술은 휴대폰의 광원을 컨트롤 하는 방법을 사용하여 전용 휴대폰의 필요 없이 보급된 대부분의 휴대폰에 적용 가능하며, 소프트웨어로 구현되어 다양한 기능을 추가하는 것이 가능하다. 그러나 휴대폰을 이용한 디지카드시스템은 휴대폰의 성능에 따라 데이터의 전송시간에 차이가 나고, 암호화 등의 이유로 데이터를 길게 하면 데이터의 길이에 비례하여 전송속도가 늘어나는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 디지카드 시스템은 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위하여 유기 EL(OLED)을 이용하여 속도를 획기적으로 향상시켰으며 또한 소프트웨어적으로 암호화를 해결하여 보안상의 문제 등을 해결하였다.