Electronically controlled coherent linear optical sampling for optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 9976-9990

  Kray, Stefan ^a   Spöler, Felix ^a   Hellerer, Thomas ^b   Kurz, Heinrich ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b TOPTICA PHOTONICS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; FIBER LASERS; INTERFEROMETRY; LOCOMOTIVES; POWER ELECTRONICS; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; RAILROAD CARS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ASYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL SAMPLINGS; BROAD SPECTRAL; COMMERCIAL MODE; ELECTRONIC CONTROLS; LASER PULSE TRAIN; LINEAR OPTICAL SAMPLING; LOW COHERENCE INTERFEROMETRY; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPETITION RATE; SCANNING RANGE; SCANNING RATE; THREE DIMENSIONS; TURN-KEY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSDUCER;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 77952692067     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009976     Document Type: Article

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