Needle-based refractive index measurement using low-coherence interferometry

Optics Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 385-387

  Zysk, Adam M ^a   Adie, Steven G ^b   Armstrong, Julian J ^b   Leigh, Matthew S ^b   Paduch, Alexandre ^b   Sampson, David D ^b   Nguyen, Freddy T ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL PATH LENGTH; REFRACTIVE INDEX MEASUREMENT; SCATTERING RESPONSE;

COHERENT LIGHT; DIAGNOSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

OPTICAL DEVICES;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; METHODOLOGY; NEEDLE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; NEEDLES; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 33847683406     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.32.000385     Document Type: Article

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