All-fiber variable optical delay line for applications in optical coherence tomography: Feasibility study for a novel delay line

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1334-1345

  Choi, Eunseo ^a   Na, Jihoon ^a   Ryu, Seon Young ^a   Mudhana, Gopinath ^a   Lee, Byeong Ha ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRIC DELAY LINES; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LASER PULSES; PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS; TOMOGRAPHY; ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA;

ALL-FIBER OPTICAL DELAY LINE (AFODL); OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); RAPID SCANNING OPTICAL DELAY LINE (RSODL); TRANSPARENT GLASS PLATES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 14744282919     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.001334     Document Type: Article

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