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Sang-Guk Han

Yonsei University · Engineering

About the Lab

Professor Sang-Guk Han's research lab specializes in advanced optoelectronic systems, with a primary focus on visible light communication (VLC), high-precision indoor positioning, and next-generation display technologies. The lab develops innovative solutions for integrated VLC and positioning systems using LED lighting and image sensors, achieving centimeter-level accuracy in 3D space. It also pioneers flexible, full-color micro-LED displays using quantum dots and photolithography, enabling applications on unconventional substrates like skin and fabric. Additionally, the lab investigates photonic waveguides and free-space optical communication, addressing challenges such as thermal effects, atmospheric turbulence, and beam alignment in high-capacity optical links.

visible light communication3D indoor positioningmicro-LED displaysoptical waveguidesfree-space optical communication

Research Overview

Papers
404
Total Citations
3,832
Papers (5y)
57
Primary Field
Engineering

Research Output Trend

Figures are computed from collected data and may differ slightly.

Publications per year (5y)
57total
2022
2023
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2026
Citations per year (5y)
271total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|131 citations·2013
Indoor three‐dimensional location estimation based on LED visible light communication
S.‐H. Yang, Eun-Mi Jeong, Dayeon Kim, Hyun Sook Kim, Yong-Hwan Son, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q3Electronics LettersOA

A novel concept for integrating visible light communications (VLC) with three‐dimensional indoor positioning is presented. A VLC link based on transmitter and receiver characteristics using experimental measurements was modelled. Proposed is a three‐dimensional positioning algorithm using received signal strength indication, which changes based on the angle and distance of the location based service. To reduce inter‐cell interference, the transmitter's location code was sent using different subc

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
2
Article|64 citations·2016
High‐resolution indoor positioning using light emitting diode visible light and camera image sensor
Jae‐Yoon Kim, Se‐Hoon Yang, Yong‐Hwan Son, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q3IET Optoelectronics

The authors propose a new high‐resolution indoor positioning method based on visible light communication using two light emitting diode (LED) lightings and an image sensor of camera as a receiver. Through the proposed method, the authors can determine position of receiver using the real coordinate of two LED lightings and a captured image. In order to demonstrate the applicability of positioning method, they evaluated the positioning accuracy as changing receiver position. From the experimental

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
3
Article|48 citations·2022
Flexible micro-LED display and its application in Gbps multi-channel visible light communication
Luhing Hu, Jae-Yong Choi, Sumin Hwangbo, Do‐Hoon Kwon, Bongkyun Jang, Seunghyeon Ji, Jae‐Hyun Kim, Sang‐Kook Han, Jong‐Hyun Ahn
SJR Q1npj Flexible ElectronicsOA

Abstract A flexible full-color micro-LED display with high mechanical robustness was fabricated by printing quantum dots (QDs) on a blue micro-LED array using standard photolithography. The red and green colors yielded from QDs exhibit a better color gamut than conventional color filters. The light conversion efficiency was enhanced by adding TiO 2 nanoparticles to the QD-photoresist composite. This full-color micro-LED display was successfully mounted on various unusual substrates such as curve

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
4
Article|11 citations·2013
20Gb/s WDM-OFDM-PON over 20-km single fiber uplink transmission using optical millimeter-wave signal seeding with rate adaptive bit-power loading
Iwa Kartiwa, Sang-Min Jung, Moon-Ki Hong, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optical Fiber Technology
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
5
Article|11 citations·1989
Thermal nonlinear absorption and power limiting in waveguides
Sang‐Kook Han, H. Zhenguang, Rajesh Srivastava, Ramu V. Ramaswamy
SJR Q2Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Power limiting in semiconductor-doped glass waveguides in the cw regime is explained on the basis of thermal effects. From the measurement of the temperature dependence of the refractive index and transmission as a function of wavelength, we show that the change in the absorption coefficient that is due to heating of the bulk-glass substrates at high optical powers accounts for the nonlinear behavior of the waveguides. The power limiting observed in planar waveguides was calculated, and excellen

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
6
Article|11 citations·2023
Adaptive Beam Divergence Control to Mitigate Scintillation Effect Caused by Pointing Error in Vertical FSO Transmissions
Hyemin Park, Young-Jin Hyun, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q1SensorsOA

Free-space optical (FSO) communication has been studied for next-generation network systems. Because an FSO system establishes point-to-point communication links, maintaining alignment among the transceivers is a critical challenge. In addition, atmospheric turbulence causes significant signal loss in FSO vertical links. Even in clear weather conditions, transmitted optical signals suffer significant scintillation losses due to random variations. Thus, the effect of atmospheric turbulence should

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
7
Article|10 citations·2022
Estimation and performance analysis of multiple incident beam misalignment in spatial diversity based FSO transmissions
Sung‐Jin Kim, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optics Communications
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
8
Article|10 citations·2016
Implementation of differentiated services in indoor visible-light communication using interchannel interference
Se-Hoon Yang, Do‐Hoon Kwon, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optics Communications
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
9
Article|8 citations·2021
SOA-Based Multilevel Polarization Shift On–Off Keying Transmission for Free-Space Optical Communication
Yan‐Qing Hong, Do‐Hoon Kwon, Jae-Young Choi, In-Ho Ha, Won-Ho Shin, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2PhotonicsOA

This paper proposes a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA)-based multilevel polarization shift on–off keying (MPS-OOK) transmission for free-space optical (FSO) communication. At the transmitter end, the MPS-OOK signal is modulated with a constant linear state of polarization (SOP) at the high-intensity level and various SOPs at the low-intensity level in order to improve the spectral efficiency (SE) with the transmitted power efficiency. At the receiver end, first, a polarization-independent S

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
10
Article|8 citations·1995
Highly asymmetrical vertical coupler wavelengthfilter in InGaAlAs/InP
Sang‐Kook Han, Ramu V. Ramaswamy, Robert F. Tavlykaev
SJR Q3Electronics Letters

For the first time a narrowband wavelength filter in InGaAlAs/InP is reported. A highly asymmetrical, vertically-coupled directional coupler operating near the band edge is formed by a narrow ridge and a wide strip-loaded waveguide. Operation at a centre wavelength of ~1.5 µm with a bandwidth of 18 Å and transfer efficiency of ~50–70% has been achieved.

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
11
Article|8 citations·2018
Wavelength reused bidirectional reflective coherent-PON based on cascaded SOA/RSOA ONUs
Sang-Min Jung, Kyoung-Hak Mun, Soo-Min Kang, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optical Fiber Technology
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
12
Article|8 citations·2022
Efficient MIMO Configuration for Bi-Directional Vertical FSO Link with Multiple Beam Induced Pointing Error
Sung‐Jin Kim, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q1SensorsOA

We proposed the statistical misalignment model and the power-efficient configuration of transceivers for bi-directional multi-input and multi-output (MIMO) based vertical free space optical (FSO) links. Spatial diversity based MIMO FSO systems could be used to mitigate atmospheric fading issues. However, the increased number of channels can cause additional pointing error in pointing, acquisition and tracking (PAT) systems. The statistical misalignment model for detecting misalignment error is d

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
13
Article|8 citations·2018
Adaptive window thresholding for noise-robust photo detection in OCC
Joon Woo Lee, Sung‐Jin Kim, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optics Communications
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
14
Article|7 citations·2018
CSI estimation with pilot tone for scintillation effects mitigation on satellite optical communication
In-Younk Choi, Won-Ho Shin, Sang‐Kook Han
SJR Q2Optics Communications
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering
15
Article|7 citations·2002
Analysis of all optical cascaded XGM wavelength converter using CW-holding beam
Ku-Ik Chung, Taeyoung Kim, Sang‐Kook Han
Optical and Quantum Electronics
Electrical and Electronic EngineeringEngineering

Research Areas

Electrical and Electronic EngineeringAtomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsMolecular BiologyInstrumentationAerospace EngineeringComputational Mechanics

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