The development of double clad fiber and double clad fiber coupler for fiber based biomedical imaging systems

Journal of the Optical Society of Korea

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 310-315

  Ryu, Seon Young ^a   Choi, Hae Young ^a   Ju, Myeong Jin ^a   Na, Jihoon ^a   Choi, Woo June ^a   Lee, Byeong Ha ^a  

^a Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Double clad fiber; Fluorescence spectroscopy; Optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849136073     PISSN: 12264776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3807/JOSK.2009.13.3.310     Document Type: Article

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