High power wavelength linearly swept mode locked fiber laser for OCT imaging

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 14095-14105

  Liu, George Y ^a   Mariampillai, Adrian ^a   Standish, Beau A ^a   Munce, Nigel R ^a   Gu, Xijia ^b   Vitkin, I Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; LOCKS (FASTENERS); TUNING;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; FOURIER COMPONENTS; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; LONG COHERENCE LENGTH; OPTICAL PATH DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY DECREASE; THEORETICAL LIMITS; WAVELENGTH-TUNING RANGE;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 51149102652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014095     Document Type: Article

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