Dual core Ytterbium doped fiber ring laser in Fourier domain mode locked operation for swept-source optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7580, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Harduar, Mark K ^a   Mariampillai, Adrian ^b   Vuong, Barry ^a   Cheng, Kyle H Y ^c   Chen, Lawrence R ^d   Gu, Xijia ^a   Standish, Beau A ^a   Yang, Victor X D ^a,e,f  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^f SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

1060nm; Fourier Domain Mode Lock; Optical coherence tomography; Swept source; Ytterbium doped fiber amplifier

Indexed keywords

1060 NM; FOURIER DOMAINS; MODE LOCK; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SWEPT SOURCE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBER AMPLIFIER;

BANDWIDTH; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; FIBERS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; RING LASERS; SCANNING; TOMOGRAPHY; YTTERBIUM;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77951871573     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.842825     Document Type: Conference Paper

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