High-power 1300 nm FDML swept laser using polygon-based narrowband optical scanning filter

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7168, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Mao, Youxin ^a   Flueraru, Youxin ^a   Chang, Shoude ^a   Sherif, Sherif ^b  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomedical imaging.; Optical coherence tomography; Wavelength swept source

Indexed keywords

1300NM WAVELENGTHS; BIOMEDICAL IMAGING.; COHERENCE LENGTHS; FOURIER DOMAINS; HIGH EFFICIENCIES; HIGH-POWER; HIGH-SPEED; HIGH-SPEED IMAGING; LASER STRUCTURES; MODE-LOCKED; NARROW BANDS; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL POWER; OUTPUT POWER; POLYGON SCANNERS; REPETITION RATES; ROTATION RATES; SWEEPING RATES; SWEPT LASERS; WAVELENGTH-SWEPT LASERS;

COHERENT LIGHT; LASERS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SCANNING; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TOMOGRAPHY; WAVELENGTH;

OPTICAL FILTERS;

EID: 65349097954     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.807511     Document Type: Conference Paper

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