Limitation of the achievable signal-to-noise ratio in optical coherence tomography due to mismatch of the balanced receiver

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 25, 2004, Pages 4802-4815

  Rosa, Carla Carmelo ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; BANDWIDTH; INTERFEROMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; DISPERSION COMPENSATION; PHOTON NOISE;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 4544385904     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004802     Document Type: Article

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