Heterodyne Fourier domain optical coherence tomography for full range probing with high axial resolution

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1487-1496

  Bachmann, Adrian H ^a   Leitgeb, Rainer A ^a,b   Lasser, Theo ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTOOPTICAL EFFECTS; BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; PHASE SHIFT; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (FDOCT); SIGNAL FREQUENCY;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33144485776     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.001487     Document Type: Article

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