Dispersion properties of grating-based rapid scanning optical delay lines

Applied Optics

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 986-992

  Gao, Wanrong ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DISPERSION (WAVES); IMAGE PROCESSING; TISSUE;

GROUP DELAY DISPERSION (GDD); RAPID SCANNING OPTICAL DELAY (RSOD) LINES; TISSUE DISPERSION COMPENSATION; TISSUE IMAGING;

ELECTRIC DELAY LINES;

ARTICLE; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FIBER OPTICS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 33947526021     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.46.000986     Document Type: Article

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