In-fiber common-path optical coherence tomography using a conical-tip fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 2375-2384

  Tan, K M ^a   Mazilu, M ^a   Chow, T H ^b   Lee, W M ^a   Taguchi, K ^c   Ng, B K ^b   Sibbett, W ^a   Herrington, C S ^d   Brown, C T A ^a   Dholakia, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FIBERS; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; LENSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT LENSES; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TOMOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; CHEMICAL-ETCHING PROCESS; FOURIER-DOMAIN OCT; IMAGING LENS; REFERENCE PLANE; REFERENCE SIGNALS; REFLECTED SIGNAL; SELF-ALIGNING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 60549084539     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.002375     Document Type: Article

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