OFDR with an SSG-DBR laser

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5531, Issue , 2004, Pages 375-382

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

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Medical Imaging; OCT; OFDR; SSG DBR laser

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TOMOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (OFDR); SUPERSTRUCTURE-GRATING-DISTRIBUTED-BRAGG-REFLECTOR (SSG-DBR) LASERS; WAVELENGTH TUNABILITY;

REFLECTOMETERS;

EID: 15744405046     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.559120     Document Type: Conference Paper

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