Frequency comb swept lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21257-21270

  Tsai, Tsung Han ^a   Zhou, Chao ^a   Adler, Desmond C ^a   Fujimoto, James G ^a  

^a USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURIER SERIES; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SIGNAL SAMPLING;

DESIGN AND OPERATIONS; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMATIONS; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; INTERFERENCE SIGNAL; INTERFEROMETRIC MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT RANGE; NARROW BANDWIDTH; SHORT CAVITY LASERS;

COMB FILTERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 70749150104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021257     Document Type: Article

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