Compact, broad-bandwidth fiber laser for sub-2-μm axial resolution optical coherence tomography in the 1300-nm wavelength region

Optics Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 707-709

  Bizheva, K ^a   Povazay B ^a   Hermann, B ^a   Sattmann, H ^a   Drexler, W ^a   Mei, M ^b   Holzwarth, R ^b   Hoelzenbein, T ^c   Wacheck, V ^c   Pehamberger, H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MENLO SYSTEMS GMBH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOPSY; FIBER LASERS; LIGHT EMISSION; TISSUE; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL RESOLUTION;

COHERENT LIGHT;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTERIES; BIOPSY; HUMANS; LASERS; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0038029572     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.28.000707     Document Type: Article

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