Self-mixing imaging sensor using a monolithic VCSEL array with parallel readout

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 5517-5525

  Lim, Yah Leng ^a   Nikolic, Milan ^a   Bertling, Karl ^a   Kliese, Russell ^a   Rakić, Aleksandar D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE RESOLUTION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LASER OPTICS; MIXING; TRANSCEIVERS;

ELECTRONIC SCANNING; FULL-FIELD IMAGING; MONOLITHIC ARRAYS; PARALLEL IMAGING; SENSING APPLICATIONS; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ARRAYS; VERTICAL CAVITY LASERS;

SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GENETIC PROCEDURES; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS; PHOTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 65449182771     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.005517     Document Type: Article

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