MEMS scanner based swept source laser for optical coherence tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7554, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Totsuka, Kouki ^a   Isamoto, Keiji ^a   Sakai, Tooru ^a   Morosawa, Atsushi ^a   Chong, Changho ^a  

^a Santec Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Light source; MEMS; OCT; Swept source

Indexed keywords

2 DEGREE OF FREEDOMS; CENTER WAVELENGTH; LITTROW CONFIGURATION; MEMS SCANNER; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEMS; OCT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PEAK POWER; SCANNING FREQUENCY; SWEPT SOURCE; SYSTEM SENSITIVITY; TUNABLE OPTICAL FILTERS; WAVELENGTH RANGES; WIDE TUNING;

LIGHT SOURCES; MIRRORS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77951563365     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841528     Document Type: Conference Paper

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