Fourier Domain Mode Locked (FDML) lasers at 1050 nm and 202,000 sweeps per second for OCT retinal imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6429, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Huber, Robert ^a,b   Adler, Desmond C ^b   Srinivasan, Vivek J ^b   Gorczynska, Iwona M ^b   Fujimoto, James G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER ANALYSIS; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKED (FDML) LASERS; IMAGING SPEEDS; LASER SOURCE; RETINAL IMAGING;

LASER MODE LOCKING;

EID: 34248576046     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.704084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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