Highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with high refractive index core for dental OCT applications

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7609, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Koga, Taito ^a   Namihira, Yoshinori ^a   Kinjo, Tatsuya ^a   Kaijage, Shubi F ^a   Razzak, S M Abdur ^a   Nozaki, Shinya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Finite difference method; Optical coherence tomography; Photonic crystal fiber; Supercontinuum light

Indexed keywords

BROADBAND LIGHT; DENTAL APPLICATIONS; HIGH REFRACTIVE INDEX; HIGHLY NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; INPUT POWER; NEAR-ZERO DISPERSIONS; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL INTERFERENCE; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT; SUPERCONTINUUM LIGHT SOURCE; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGES; WIDE-BAND; ZERO DISPERSION;

COHERENT LIGHT; CRYSTAL WHISKERS; DISPERSION (WAVES); DISPERSIONS; FIBERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; LASER PULSES; LIGHT SOURCES; PHONONS; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONIC DEVICES; REFRACTIVE INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 77951743437     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.841633     Document Type: Conference Paper

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