• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.396-400
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• 2012

We introduce a combined technique and the mathematical description for distance measurements using a femtosecond pulse laser in a long range and a fine resolution. For distance measurements, the maximum measurable range can be extended by combining measurement results from several different methods while requiring relationships between the different measurement uncertainties and unambiguity ranges. This paper briefly explains why the uncertainty of a rough measurement technique (RMT) should be, at least, smaller than the half unambiguity range of a fine measurement technique (FMT) in order to combine a FMT with a RMT. Further discussions about the total measurement range, resolution, and uncertainty for various optical measurement techniques are also discussed.

• 센서학회지
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.22-30
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• 2023

Innovative and advanced technologies, including robots, augmented reality, virtual reality, the Internet of Things, and wearable medical equipment, have largely emerged as a result of the rapid evolution of modern society. For these applications, pressure monitoring is essential and pressure sensors have attracted considerable interest. To improve the sensor performance, several new designs of pressure sensors have been researched based on resistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, optical, and triboelectric types. In particular, optical pressure sensors have been actively studied owing to their advantages, such as robustness to noise and remote sensing capability. Herein, a review of recent research on optical pressure sensors with self-powered sensing, remote sensing, high spatial resolution, and multimodal sensing capabilities is presented from the viewpoints of design, fabrication, and signal processing.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.429-434
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• 2004

현재 임상적으로 사용되고 있는 안구내시경은 전체 직경이 1 mm 이하로 제한되어 있고, 그 영상분해능 역시 30∼40 lp/mm로 제약되기 때문에 안구내시경 영상의 질을 판단하는데 있어서 가장 중요한 요소는 영상 분해능이라고 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 0.23pitch GRIN 렌즈와 5 $\mu\textrm{m}$ 이하의 마이크로 광섬유를 포함하는 미세 영상가이드를 이용한 새로운 광학적 설계로 고 분해능 안구내시경의 확대 영상을 획득하였고, USAF 분해능 target을 이용하여 기존 안구내시경 영상의 분해능과 비교, 분석하였다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2006년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.359-360
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• 2006

Functional photoacoustic tomography is a new non-invasive imaging modality, and it is emerging as a very practical method for imaging biological tissue structures by means of laser-induced ultrasound. Structures with high optical absorption, such as blood vessels, can be imaged with the spatial resolution of ultrasound, which is not limited by the strong light scattering in biological tissues. By varying wavelengths of the laser light and acquiring photoacoustic images, optical absorption spectrum of each image pixel is found. Since the biochemical constituents of tissues determine the spectrum, useful functional information like oxygen saturation ($SO_2$) and total haemoglobin concentration (HbT) can be extracted. In this study, as a proof-of-principle experiment, hypoxic brain tumor vasculature and traumatic brain injury (TBI) of small animal brain are imaged with functional photoacoustic tomography. High resolution brain vasculature images of oxygen saturation and total hemoglobin concentration are provided to visualize hypoxic tumor vasculature, and hemorrhage on the cortex surface by the TBI.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.216-221
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• 2011

A diffraction grating is a highly symmetric optical element with a physical structure that is invariant under translational spatial movements. The translational symmetry is reflected in the fields that are diffracted from the grating. Here, we introduce a plane-parallel mirror pair onto the grating, which translates the fields through double reflections, and we describe a method of exploiting the symmetry to enhance the spectral resolution of a diffraction grating beyond the limit that is set by the number of grooves. The mirror pair creates another virtual grating beside the original one, effectively doubling the number of grooves. Addition of more mirror pairs can further increase the effective number of grooves despite the increased complexity and difficulty of experimental implementation. We experimentally demonstrate the spectral linewidth reduction by a factor of four in a neon fluorescence spectrum. Even though the geometrical restriction on the mirror deployment limits our method to a certain range of the whole spectrum, as a practical application example, a bulky spectrometer that is nearly empty inside can be made compact without sacrificing the resolution.

• 천문학회보
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.101.1-101.1
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• 2012

Interplanetary dust particles are observable as zodiacal light, which is the sunlight scattered by the interplanetary dust particles. The origins of interplanetary dust particles are still in question because they are eroded by Poynting-Robertson photon drag and mutual collisions among dust particles. The small-scale structures in the zodiacal light provided a clue to specify their origins. Asteroidal debris were detected as band-like structures (dust bands), and the cometary large particles were detected as narrow trails (dust trails). However, little is confirmative about their detailed origins and mineralogical compositions because of the lack of observational data particularly in the optical wavelength. We made a high-resolution optical zodiacal light map based on the CCD observations at Mauna Kea, Hawaii. We analyzed data taken on November 12, 2004. After the data reduction, such as flat fielding and subtraction of airglow emissions, we succeeded in the construction of the zodiacal light map with the spatial resolution of 3' in the solar elongation between 45 degree and 180 degree. This is the highest resolution map in the visible wavelength so far. In this map, we confirmed the dust bands structures near the ecliptic plane. We will discuss about the similarities and the differences between optical and infrared dust bands.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.25-30
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 상용 고휘도 백색광 LED 및 CCD 어레이 검파기를 이용하여 Fourier-domain 방식의 광 계측기를 구현하였다. 제안된 기술의 축 방향 측정 거리 범위는 $125{\mu}m$이고, 축 방향 분해능은 $1.24{\mu}m$이다. 기존 시스템이 고가의 광대역 광원을 사용하면서도 분해능이 수 ${\mu}m$ 이상인 것에 비추어 볼 때, 본 시스템은 저가의 상용 LED와 CCD 어레이 검파기를 사용하여 구현되므로 소형이며 가격적인 면에서 유리하면서도 높은 분해능을 얻을 수 있다.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2009년도 동계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.243-245
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• 2009

광학 현미경의 분해능이 파장에 따른 회절에 의해 결정된다. 이것을 극복하기 위해서 나노미터까지 분해능을 향상시키기 위해서 근접장 광학이 각광을 받고 있다. 본 보고에서는 흡수 에지 근처의 위상변화 특성에 기인한 초해상을 보고한다.

• 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보디스플레이학회 2008년도 International Meeting on Information Display
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• pp.859-862
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• 2008

We present a new tool to measure precisely the emissive properties of displays at the pixel level with submicrometric spatial resolution. It is useful to check the technological defects and their impact on the emissive properties of the displays. Backlight films and transflective and reflective displays are measured.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.363-367
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• 2016

In this paper, we present a resolution-enhanced computational integral imaging reconstruction method by using boundary folding mirrors. In the proposed method, to improve the resolution of the computationally reconstructed 3D images, the direct and reflected light information of the 3D objects through a lenslet array with boundary folding mirrors is recorded as a combined elemental image array. Then, the ray tracing method is employed to synthesize the regular elemental image array by using a combined elemental image array. From the experimental results, we can verify that the proposed method can improve the visual quality of the computationally reconstructed 3D images.