Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Sang Rok Moon

Joon Ki Lee

Seung-Hyun Cho

Hun Sik Kang

Won Kyoung Lee

Sun Hyok Chang

Eon-Sang Kim

Seung-Woo Lee

In Ki Hwang

Minkyu Sung

Seung Woo Lee

Joon Young Huh

Jung-yeol Oh

Sae Kyoung Kang

Changyo Han

A method of detecting a biomolecule, a computing device performing the method, and a biomolecule detection system therefor are provided. The method includes receiving a terahertz signal that passed deionized water or reference material, receiving a terahertz signal that passed a target including a predetermined biomolecule, extracting a digital modulation characteristic for the received terahertz signal that passed the deionized water and the received terahertz signal that passed the target, and detecting the predetermined biomolecule included in the target by analyzing the extracted digital modulation characteristic, wherein the received terahertz signal that passed the deionized water and the received terahertz signal that passed the target are generated using a digitally modulated optical signal based on a transmission speed determined based on kinematics of the predetermined biomolecule.

Biomolecule detection method, computing device performing the method, and biomolecule detection system therefor

Provided are a method and apparatus for registering a new terminal using chromatic dispersion distance estimation. The method of registering a new terminal, performed by a transport unit (TU), includes performing frame synchronization through a downstream packet received from a transport node (TN), identifying a position of a frequency of a spectral null and a number of frequencies of spectral nulls through analysis on a frequency spectrum of the received downstream packet, estimating a transmission distance of an optical fiber to the TN, based on the identified position of the frequency of the spectral null and the identified number of frequencies of spectral nulls, and determining a timing of transmitting a registration request message, based on the estimated transmission distance, where the discovery information message is received from the TN.

Method and apparatus for registering new terminal using chromatic dispersion distance estimation

A method and apparatus for compensating an in- and quadrature-(IQ) imbalance are disclosed. The method and apparatus for compensating an in- and quadrature-(IQ) imbalance provide a technique for compensating a signal distortion caused by imperfect element features and various noises on a transmission link in terahertz wireless communication and improving transmission performance.

Method and apparatus for compensating IQ imbalance

A method of equalization for high-speed processing and an equalizer thereof are proposed. The method of equalization includes determining a filter coefficient applied to a transmitter equalizer provided with a 2-tap precoder according to an approximate channel response characteristic, generating a pre-equalization signal by removing precursor ISI of a transmission feedback signal by the precoder to which the filter coefficient is applied, so as to output the pre-equalization signal as a transmitting signal, and receiving a transmission signal and generating an equalization signal by removing postcursor ISI of the received transmission signal by a receiver equalizer provided with a feedback filter having auxiliary coefficients for compensating for a difference between an overall channel response of the transmission signal and a channel response based on the precoder.

Method of equalization for high-speed processing and equalizer thereof

Disclosed herein is an optical transmitter for generating a vestigial sideband (VSB) optical signal. The optical transmitter includes: a modulator configured based on a photonic integrated chip (PIC); an optical fiber block; and a lensed thin film filter implemented between the modulator configured based on the PIC and the optical fiber block. The PIC includes at least one grating coupler, and the lensed thin film filter is disposed so that an angle of an optical signal emitted from a first grating coupler of the PIC coincides with an angle of incident (AOI) of the lensed thin film filter to design the first grating coupler and the lensed thin film filter.

Optical transmitter based on vestigial sideband modulation

Provided are an apparatus and method of generating a terahertz (THz) signal using a directly-modulated laser. An apparatus of generating a THz signal includes a first directly-modulated laser configured to output a local oscillator (LO) signal, a second directly-modulated laser configured to receive a baseband signal used as data and optically modulate the baseband signal, a band-pass filter configured to filter a spectral component of the baseband signal optically modulated and outputted through the second directly-modulated laser by using a specific frequency bandwidth, a coupler configured to couple the baseband signal filtered through the band-pass filter and the LO signal to each other, and a uni-travelling-carrier photodiode (UTC-PD) configured to generate a THz signal by beating the baseband signal and the LO signal coupled to each other.

Apparatus and method of generating terahertz signal using directly-modulated laser

Disclosed is a method and apparatus for phase error compensation having tolerance to a cyclic slip. The method includes determining first phase error candidates based on symbol phases of a first block of a received signal, determining an initial estimation error according to the first phase error candidates, determining second phase error candidates based on symbol phases of a second block of the received signal, determining a final estimation error according to the initial estimation error and the second phase error candidates, and compensating for a phase of the received signal according to the final estimation error.

Method and apparatus for phase error compensation having tolerance to cyclic slip

A method of generating a terahertz wave and apparatuses performing the method are disclosed. According to an example embodiment, a method of generating a terahertz wave includes outputting a laser comb by modulating a laser output from a laser source based on a linearly modulated frequency of an output that is output from a frequency source, and generating a terahertz wave based on a first comb line and a second comb line selected from the laser comb.

Method of generating terahertz wave and apparatuses performing the same

An optical transmission method for processing a signal based on direct detection includes setting, by an equalizer, an adaptive equalization coefficient by performing an equalization process during a training symbol field section in a frame of a received signal, performing, by a channel estimator, channel estimation to perform an equalization process of a soft output maximum likelihood sequence equalizer (MLSE) during the training symbol field section, driving the soft output MLSE, and compensating for, by the soft output MLSE, distortion of the received signal during a data symbol field section in the frame on the basis of the adaptive equalization coefficient and an estimated result value of a channel, and recovering, by an error corrector which allows soft-decision processing to be performed, the received signal by performing error correction on the received signal in which the distortion is compensated for.

Optical transmission apparatus and method for processing signal based on direct detection

A method and apparatus for compensation of a chromatic dispersion through an optical compensation and an electronical compensation in optical communication. An optical communication method receives an optical signal, estimates a first transmission length based on a null component included in a frequency spectrum of the optical signal, optically compensates for a chromatic dispersion of the optical signal based on the first transmission length, estimates a second transmission length based on a null component included in a frequency spectrum of the compensated optical signal, and electronically compensates for a residual chromatic dispersion of the compensated optical signal based on the second transmission length.

Apparatus and method for equalization and compensation of chromatic dispersion in optical transmission

A mode-multiplexing control method, and a transmission apparatus and reception apparatus for the same, the mode-multiplexing control method performed by the transmission apparatus, the mode-multiplexing control method including measuring data traffic, determining a transmission mode count to be used based on the measured data traffic, and transmitting data to a reception apparatus through an optical line in transmission modes corresponding to the determined transmission mode count.

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Daejeon, South Korea

Sang Rok Moon