Superluminescent diodes for optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4648, Issue , 2002, Pages 139-147

  Shidlovski, Vladimir ^a   Wei, Jay ^a  

^a Superlum Diodes Ltd   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Broadband lightsources; Optical coherence tomography; Superluminescent diodes

Indexed keywords

ANTIREFLECTION COATINGS; COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTALS; DIODES; ELECTRODES; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT MODULATION; LUMINESCENT DEVICES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROTECTIVE COATINGS;

SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES (SLED);

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036029010     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.462650     Document Type: Conference Paper

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