Dispersion management up to the third order for real-time optical coherence tomography involving a phase or frequency modulator

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 24, 2004, Pages 5968-5978

  Chen, Yuchuan ^a   Li, Xingde ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; ELECTROMAGNETIC DISPERSION; ELECTROOPTICAL EFFECTS; FIBER OPTICS; FREQUENCIES; LIGHT MODULATORS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SCANNING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

MEDICAL AND BIOLOGICAL IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); ULTRAFAST TECHNOLOGY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 10444247406     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.005968     Document Type: Article

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