Lensed fiber probes designed as an alternative to bulk probes in optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1510-1516

  Seon, Young Ryu ^a   Hae, Young Choi ^a   Na, Jihoon ^a   Woo, June Choi ^a   Byeong, Ha Lee ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; LENSES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PROBES; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; CORELESS SILICA FIBER; DISTANCE RANGES; LARGE-MODE-AREA PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; LATERAL RESOLUTION; SAMPLING PROBES; TRANSVERSE RESOLUTION; WORKING DISTANCES;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FIBER OPTICS; HISTOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAT;

ANIMALS; EXTREMITIES; FIBER OPTICS; RATS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 48849094500     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001510     Document Type: Article

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