Realization of fiber-based OCT system with broadband photonic crystal fiber coupler

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6079, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Ryu, Seon Young ^a   Na, Jihoon ^a   Choi, Hae Young ^a   Choi, Woo Jun ^a   Lee, Byeong Ha ^a   Yang, Gil Ho ^b  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

^b Fovice   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Fused biconical tapered method; Optical coherence tomography; Photonic crystal fiber coupler

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LUMINESCENCE; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PHOTONS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

FUSED BICONICAL TAPERED METHOD; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER COUPLER;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 33646239161     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.648951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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