Full range complex spectral domain optical coherence tomography without additional phase shifters

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 13375-13387

  Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAGG CELLS; GALVANOMETERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHASE SHIFTERS;

COMPLEX VALUED SIGNALS; HUBERT TRANSFORM; PIEZO-DRIVEN MIRRORS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 35148828473     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013375     Document Type: Article

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