High-speed wavelength-swept laser source with high-linearity sweep for optical coherence tomography

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 235-242

  Chong, Changho ^a,b   Morosawa, Atsushi ^b   Sakai, Tooru ^b  

^a IEEE

^b Santec Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linear sweep; Optical coherence tomography (OCT); Optical filter; Tunable laser

Indexed keywords

IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER BEAMS; OPTICAL FILTERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PRISMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBUST CONTROL;

LINEAR SWEEP; POLYGON MIRROR SCANNER; ROBUST LASER;

LASER TUNING;

EID: 39449122662     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2007.911766     Document Type: Article

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