Parallel broadband fluorescent light source for optical coherence tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 5690, Issue , 2005, Pages 209-213

  Bourquin, Stéphane ^a   Laversenne, Laetitia ^a   Rivier, Simon ^a   Lasser, Theo ^a   Salathé, René Paul ^a   Pollnau, Markus ^a   Grivas, Christos ^b   Shepherd, David P ^b   Eason, Robert W ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband fluorescence; Optical coherence tomography; Parallel Ti:sapphire waveguides

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; FLUORESCENCE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; REACTIVE ION ETCHING;

BROADBAND FLUORESCENCE; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARALLEL TI:SAPPHIRE WAVEGUIDES;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 21844439991     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.592819     Document Type: Conference Paper

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