Correction of sampling errors due to laser tuning rate fluctuations in swept-wavelength interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 13139-13149

  Moore, Eric D ^a   McLeod, Robert R ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR CORRECTION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER TUNING; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

DATA ACQUISITION HARDWARE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; FREQUENCY SAMPLING; INTERFEROMETRIC TECHNIQUES; MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; SWEPT WAVELENGTH; TRANSMISSION DELAYS;

ERRORS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFACTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SAMPLE SIZE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 50049135943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.013139     Document Type: Article

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