Optical frequency-domain reflectometry with a rapid wavelength-scanning superstructure-grating distributed Bragg reflector laser

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 808-816

  Amano, Takuji ^a   Hiro Oka, Hideaki ^a   Choi, Donghak ^a   Furukawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Kano, Fumiyoshi ^b   Takeda, Mituo ^c   Nakanishi, Motoi ^a   Shimizu, Kimiya ^a   Ohbayashi, Kohji ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MIRRORS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FILTERS; REFLECTOMETERS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAGG REFLECTOR LASER; FOURIER DOMAIN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY;

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS;

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PILOT STUDY; REFRACTOMETRY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LASERS; PILOT PROJECTS; REFRACTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 14844283749     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.000808     Document Type: Article

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