Speckle reduction in OCT with multimode source fiber

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5317, Issue , 2004, Pages 246-250

  Kim, Jeehyun ^a   Kim, Eunha ^a   Miller, Donald T ^b   Milner, Thomas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multimode optical fiber; Optical coherence tomography; Speckle reduction

Indexed keywords

MULTIMODE OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL COHORENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SPECKLE NOISE; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

COHERENT LIGHT; DEGRADATION; FLUORESCENCE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIGHT SOURCES; PHOTOCURRENTS; REFLECTION; SPECKLE; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 5644287596     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.548972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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