Fiber optic tunable probe for endoscopic optical coherence tomography

Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Aljasem, Khaled ^a   Werber, Armin ^a   Seifert, Andreas ^a   Zappe, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Endoscopic optical coherence tomography; Polydimethylsiloxane; Tunable endoscopy; Tunable micro lens

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; FIBER OPTICS; LASER TUNING; MICROLENSES; POLYDIMETHYLSILOXANE;

ENDOSCOPIC OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TUNABLE ENDOSCOPY; TUNABLE MICRO-LENS;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 43049144283     PISSN: 14644258     EISSN: 17413567     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4258/10/4/044012     Document Type: Article

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