Swept source at 1060 nm for Fourier domain optical coherence tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6429, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Wang, Qiang ^a   Rao, Bin ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a   Hsu, Kevin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICRON OPTICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

1 micron; Fourier domain; Optical coherence tomography; Swept source

Indexed keywords

LASERS; MICROWAVE ISOLATORS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; TISSUE;

FABRY-PEROT TUNABLE FILTER; FOURIER DOMAIN; SWEEP RATE; SWEPT SOURCE;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 34248583398     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.701467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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