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PURPOSE: A heating system for drawing plastic optical fiber is provided to melt the surface and inside of optical fiber preform homogeneously by using infrared lamp as heat sources. Therefore, this system enables long distance drawing, uniform fiber diameter and step-index and graded-index fiber production. CONSTITUTION: The heating system(30) is characterized by comprising the parts of: a furnace body(31) made of stainless steel or glass, wherein an infrared reflecting film(32) obtained by coating glass with metals with excellent infrared reflection such as Au, Cr, Al, etc. is formed inside the furnace to maximize energy efficiency; a heating source, infrared lamp(40), to melt an optical fiber preform(50), wherein the linear infrared lamp is placed along the circumference(length) of the preform, being paralleled to the preform, at regular intervals; a furnace tube(35), being the inside of the infrared lamp, into which the preform is inserted from the upper part. The heating system using infrared lamp(2500K) is effective to melt polymer preform with large diameter.
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PURPOSE: An apparatus for simultaneously measuring a refractive index and an absorption coefficient of material is provided to simply measure the refractive index and the absorption coefficient of material by using Fourier transform analysis. CONSTITUTION: A beam splitter(110) is provided to divide beam generated from a light source(100) into first and second beam paths having the same beam intensity. Beam passing through a material(120) positioned in the first beam path is reflected into a moving path by a first reflection mirror(130a). A second reflection mirror(130b) is provided to reflect beam into the moving path based on the second beam path. Beam reflected from the first and second reflection mirrors(130a,130b) is detected by a beam detector(140). A scan motor(150) is driven to scan a distance of an interferometer from the second reflection mirror(130b). A computer(160) analyzes a refractive index and an absorption coefficient of material to be measured.
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PURPOSE: A large caliber optical fiber for a local area network(LAN) optical communication using a photonic crystal structure is provided, which are installed easily with a wide optical transmission bandwidth, and has a small number of induced modes regardless of the large caliber. CONSTITUTION: The optical fiber of a photonic crystal structure comprises a cylindrical body(110) of the first material, and a cylindrical opening aperture(120) of a small caliber filled with the second material which is arranged in the photonic crystal structure in the above cylindrical body. The first material is a plastic, and the second material is air. A refractive index of the first material is larger than that of the second material. The size of the cylindrical opening aperture is about 0.5-5 micrometer.
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PURPOSE: A simple production method of optical fiber mirror used for optical fiber interferometric sensor is provided, which is characterized in that an auxiliary rod is attached to an optical fiber for increasing a coating area of optical fiber in coating of optical fiber. CONSTITUTION: The optical fiber mirror is produced by the following steps: flattening the end section of optical fiber by cutting an optical fiber(10) peeled off a polymer coating to make a level, and polishing; attaching the side of an auxiliary rod(14), fused silica glass rod(10cm length) melted at 1600deg.C, to the optical fiber with a binder so that the end section of optical fiber can be laid as same as or a little lower than the end section of auxiliary rod lies; putting metal(12) in a crucible, and melting it in a chamber which is 50-150deg.C higher than melting point of metal; dipping the rod attached the fiber into the melted metal, and taking out it with stirring.
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PURPOSE: A device for measuring fine distance using an optical fiber interferometer is provided to reduce measurement error caused by changing a path of interferometer due to change of air flow, temperature and pressure or external vibration. CONSTITUTION: A device for measuring fine distance using the optical fiber interferometer includes a laser light source(210), an optical fiber coupler(230) coupling light emitted from the light source, dividing into lights of the same intensity, transferring to a measuring path and a standard path and coupling reflected light, an optical fiber mirror(250) disposed on the standard path for reflecting light transferred from the optical fiber coupler, an optical fiber polarizing adjustor(240) disposed on the standard path, an optical fiber collimater(260) aligning light transferred from the optical fiber coupler, transferring in a straight line and reflecting reflected light to the optical fiber coupler, a mirror(270) reflecting light transferred from the optical fiber collimater in straight line to the optical fiber collimater, an optical detector(280) for detecting intensity of interference pattern by light generated during the coupling process, and a microprocessor(290) calculating phase of interference pattern in a real time and displaying.
Abstract:
본 발명의 적어도 일 실시예에 따른 형광 측정 장치 및 방법은, 샘플의 형광 이미지를 획득하고 획득된 형광 이미지가 소정 이미지 면에 결상되도록 형광 빛을 출력하는 형광 현미경에 '그 이미지 면 상의 일정 위치에 말단이 위치한 광섬유', '그 형광 이미지와 광섬유 말단이 특정 위치에 위치함을 동시에 보여주는 이미지 센서' 및 '그 광섬유를 통해 입사된 형광 빛을 이용해 그 샘플의 특정 위치의 형광 정보를 획득하는 광신호 처리부'를 포함함으로써, 샘플의 특정 위치의 형광 정보를 획득할 수 있다. 또한, 본 발명의 적어도 일 실시예에 따르면 상기 형광 측정 장치에 그 소정 이미지 면으로부터 일정 거리만큼 이격된 면인 이격 면에 이미지 센서를 더 구비함으로써, 샘플을 이미지로 모니터링 함과 동시에 그 샘플의 특정 위치에서의 형광 정보를 쉽고 빠르게 얻을 수 있는 것이다.
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본 발명은 간섭계와 광검출기를 이용하여 간섭무늬를 측정하고, 이 간섭무늬에서 얻어진 위상값을 수학적 신호처리함으로써 광섬유의 색분산을 측정하는 색분산 계산 장치 및 그 방법, 색분산 측정 시스템 및 그 방법, 상기 방법들을 구현하는 프로그램이 저장된 기록매체에 관한 것이다. 본 발명은 (a) 간섭 성분을 가지는 입력 신호에 가우시안 필터들이 소정의 간격으로 이격된 가우시안 필터군을 적용하여 복수개의 서브 스펙트럼군들을 생성하는 단계; (b) 생성된 복수개의 서브 스펙트럼군들로부터 피크 성분들을 추출하고, 추출된 피크 성분 각각에 따른 시간 지연값을 계산하는 단계; (c) 피팅용 함수를 이용하여 피크 성분의 주파수와 시간 지연값을 변수로 하는 색분산 계산용 함수를 생성하는 단계; 및 (d) 생성된 색분산 계산용 함수를 이용하여 색분산을 계산하는 단계를 포함하는 것을 특징으로 하는 색분산 계산 방법을 제공한다. 본 발명에 따르면, 첫째, 광섬유의 모드나 길이에 관계없이 상기 광섬유의 색분산을 측정할 수 있다. 둘째, 광섬유의 색분산을 고속 측정할 수 있다. 세째, 생산공정이 빠르며, 종전보다 비용 부담도 적다. 색분산(chromatic dispersion) 측정, 간섭계(interferometer), 광섬유(FUT), 퓨리에 변환(fourier transform), 마하젠더(mach-zehnder) 간섭계, 간섭무늬, 가우 시안 필터, 최소제곱법(method of least squares), 커브 피팅(curve fitting), 광도파로(optical waveguide)
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Disclosed is an apparatus and method for obtaining images using coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering. The apparatus for obtaining images using coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering according to the present invention comprises: a pump light source (401) and a stokes light source (402) that irradiate pump light and stokes light on a sample (S) to generate anti-stokes light having anti-stokes frequency; a reference light source (410) that generates reference light; and an image obtaining unit (430) that obtains the images of the sample using a change in phase of the reference light due to a change in the refractive index of the sample in the vicinity of the anti-stokes frequency. Thereby, the present invention provides an apparatus for obtaining images using coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering that is not affected by non-resonant background signals, that has strong resistance against noise even for weak signals, and that has excellent sensitivity and resolution.
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A device for measuring the spectral interferometer using an optical waveguide and optical fiber and a method for measuring the same are provided to get a phase value from the interference fringe measured by an interferometer and a wavelength component photo detector to measure the spectral interferometer value. A device for measuring the spectral interferometer using an optical waveguide comprises a first and second optical splitters(20,30) and a wavelength component detector(40). The first optical splitter distributes light source(10) to a standard light path(2) and measurement light path. The second optical splitter binds the standard light path and the measurement light path. The second optical splitter causes the dark fringe. A wavelength components detector detects the waveform with the dark fringe and calculates the spectral interferometer value based on the calculated phase value of the whole wavelength area.
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A device and a method for calculating the CHROMATIC DISPERSION, a system and a method for measuring the CHROMATIC DISPERSION and a RECORDING MEDIUM storing a program implementing the method for the same are provided to make simplification of the device with a simplified method. A method for calculating the chromatic dispersion comprises: a step of generating a plurality of sub-spectrum groups by applying a Gaussian filter group in an input signal with the interference component; a step of extracting a peak component from a plurality of sub-spectrum groups and calculating a time delay value(S315); a step of generating a function for the chromatic dispersion calculation which has the frequency and time delay value of the peak component as variable using the function for fitting(S320); and a step of calculating the chromatic dispersion using the generated chromatic dispersion calculation function(S325).