Compact ultrafast reflective Fabry-Perot tunable lasers for OCT imaging applications

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7554, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kuznetsov, Mark ^a   Atia, Walid ^a   Johnson, Bart ^a   Flanders, Dale ^a  

^a Axsun Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography OCT; Swept source; Tunable semiconductor laser

Indexed keywords

1300NM WAVELENGTH; BUTTERFLY PACKAGES; COHERENCE LENGTHS; EXTERNAL CAVITY SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; FABRY-PEROT; FAST SCAN; IMAGING APPLICATIONS; OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REFLECTIVE MODES; SILICON MEMS; SWEPT SOURCE; TUNABLE FABRY-PEROT FILTERS; TUNABLE LASERS; TUNING RANGES; ULTRA-FAST;

COHERENT LIGHT; FABRY-PEROT INTERFEROMETERS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 77951558629     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842567     Document Type: Conference Paper

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