Sensitivity advantage of swept source and Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 2183-2189

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

^a Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

INTERFEROMETRIC PORTIONS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); WAVENUMBER;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 2942703878     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.002183     Document Type: Article

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