Dispersion effects in partial coherence interferometry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2981, Issue , 1997, Pages 29-36

  Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a   Drexler, Wolfgang ^a   Baumgartner, Angela ^a   Fercher, Adolf F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Coherence length; Dispersion; Group dispersion; Ocular media; Optical coherence tomography; Partial coherence interferometry; Resolution

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC RADIOGRAPHY; DISPERSION (WAVES); HOLOGRAMS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

COHERENCE LENGTH; GROUP DISPERSION; OCULAR MEDIA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARTIAL COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; RESOLUTION;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 0002140913     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.274319     Document Type: Conference Paper

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