Recent developments in Fourier domain mode locked lasers for optical coherence tomography: Imaging at 1310 nm vs. 1550 nm wavelength

Journal of Biophotonics

Volumn 2, Issue 6-7, 2009, Pages 357-363

  Biedermann, Benjamin R ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph M ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fourier domain mode locking; Optical coherence tomography; Optical frequency domain imaging; Tunable lasers

Indexed keywords

1550 NM; FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKING; FOURIER DOMAINS; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN SKIN; IMAGING PERFORMANCE; LASER SOURCES; MODE-LOCKED LASER; MODELOCKING; OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL FREQUENCY DOMAIN IMAGING; PENETRATION DEPTH; RECENT PROGRESS; SAMPLE LOCATION; TUNABLE LASERS;

COHERENT LIGHT; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; LASER MODE LOCKING; LASER TUNING; LASERS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; TOMOGRAPHY;

WATER ABSORPTION;

ADHESIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CUCUMBER; FINGER; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

ADHESIVES; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; FINGERS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LASERS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 70349321160     PISSN: 1864063X     EISSN: 18640648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jbio.200910028     Document Type: Article

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