All-fiber and fiber compatible acousto-optic modulators with potential biomedical applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6083, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Abdulhalim, I ^a   Gannot, Israel ^b   Pannell, C N ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Optronic Lab Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Acousto optics; Biomedical optics; Biosensors; Fiber sensors; Modulators; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIREFRINGENCE; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT MODULATORS; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

FIBER SENSORS; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTOOPTICAL DEVICES;

EID: 33646231242     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.660161     Document Type: Conference Paper

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