Instantaneous complex conjugate resolved spectral domain and swept-source OCT using 3×3 fiber couplers

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 957-967

  Sarunic, Marinko V ^a   Choma, Michael A ^a   Yang, Changhuei ^a   Izatt, Joseph A ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL DEVICES; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ARRAY DETECTORS; FOURIER DOMAIN TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); SPECTRAL DOMAINS;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 14744298997     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000957     Document Type: Article

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