Ultra broad band Fourier domain mode locked swept source based on dual SOAs and WDM couplers

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7554, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Jun ^a   Liu, Gangjun ^a   Chen, Zhongping ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband; Fourier domain mode locked; Optical coherence tomography; Swept source

Indexed keywords

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; BROAD BANDS; EDGE-TO-EDGE; FOURIER DOMAINS; GAIN MEDIA; HIGH-SPEED; MODE-LOCKED; MODELOCKING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SCANNING RANGE; SWEEPING RATE; SWEPT SOURCE; TUNING RANGES; ULTRA BROAD BAND; ULTRAHIGH RESOLUTION; WDM COUPLERS;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77951535491     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843353     Document Type: Conference Paper

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