Ultrahigh resolution real time OCT imaging using a compact femtosecond Nd: Glass laser and nonlinear fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 24, 2003, Pages 3290-3297

  Bourquin, S ^a   Aguirre, A D ^a   Hartl, I ^a   Hsiung, P ^a   Ko, T H ^a   Fujimoto, J G ^a   Birks, T A ^b   Wadsworth, W J ^b   Bunting U ^c   Kopf, D ^c  

^a USA   (United States)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c High Q Laser Production GmbH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABERRATIONS; COHERENT LIGHT; GALVANOMETERS; IMAGE QUALITY; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER BEAM EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; PRISMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

GLASS LASERS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS (PCF); REAL TIME IMAGING;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

EID: 2942714981     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003290     Document Type: Article

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