Numerical dispersion compensation for partial coherence interferometry and optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 610-615

  Fercher, A F ^a   Hitzenberger, C K ^a   Sticker, M ^a   Zawadzki, R ^b   Karamata, B ^c   Lasser, T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LIGHT REMITTING SITES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); PARTIAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY (PCI);

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0000840366     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.9.000610     Document Type: Article

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