Stable carrier generation and phase-resolved digital data processing in optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 40, Issue 31, 2001, Pages 5787-5790

  De Boer, Johannes F ^a,b   Saxer, Christopher E ^a   Nelson, J Stuart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTERFEROMETRY; PHASE MODULATION; PHASE SHIFT; TOMOGRAPHY;

INTERFERENCE FRINGES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0000407078     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.40.005787     Document Type: Article

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