Raman-pumped Fourier-domain mode-locked laser: Analysis of operation and application for optical coherence tomography

Optics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 23, 2008, Pages 2815-2817

  Klein, Thomas ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph M ^a   Palte, Gesa ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOURIER SERIES; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICALLY PUMPED LASERS; PUMPING (LASER); SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CAVITY RING DOWN; CW OPERATION; FOURIER DOMAINS; OUTPUT POWER; PHOTON LIFETIME; ROLL-OFF CHARACTERISTICS; STATIONARY OPERATIONS;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 57649211390     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.33.002815     Document Type: Article

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