Characterization and analysis of relative intensity noise in broadband optical sources for optical coherence tomography

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 1057-1059

  Shin, Sunghwan ^a   Sharma, Utkarsh ^a   Tu, Haohua ^a   Jung, Woonggyu ^a   Boppart, Stephen A ^a  

^a United States of America   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography (OCT); optical noise; semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs)

Indexed keywords

BROAD-BAND OPTICAL SOURCES; LIGHT OUTPUT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL NOISE; PHOTON GENERATION; PHYSICAL NATURE; RELATIVE INTENSITY NOISE; SIGNIFICANT FACTORS; SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE;

ERBIUM; FIBER AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL SWITCHES; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77954161797     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2050058     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. D. Huang et al., "Optical coherence tomography," Science, vol.254, pp. 1178-1181, 1991.
2. A. M. Zysk, F. T. Nguyen, A. L. Oldenburg, D. L. Marks, and S. A. Boppart, "Optical coherence tomography: A review of clinical development from bench to bedside," J. Biomed. Opt., vol.12, 2007, Article 051403.
3. A. M. Rollins and J. A. Izatt, "Optimal interferometer designs for optical coherence tomography," Opt. Lett., vol.24, pp. 1484-1486, 1999.
4. C. C. Rosa and A. G. Podoleanu, "Limitation of the achievable signal-to-noise ratio in optical coherence tomography due to mismatch of the balanced receiver," Appl. Opt., vol.43, pp. 4802-4815, 2004.
5. R. Leitgeb, C. Hitzenberger, and A. F. Fercher, "Performance of Fourier domain vs. time domain optical coherence tomography," Opt. Express, vol.11, pp. 889-894, 2003.
6. Y.Wang, I. Tomov, J. S. Nelson, Z. Chen, H. Lim, and F.Wise, "Lownoise broadband light generation from optical fibers for use in highresolution optical coherence tomography," J. Opt. Soc. Amer. A, Opt. Image Sci. Vision, vol.22, pp. 1492-1499, 2005.
7. D. Derickson, Fiber Optic Test and Measurement. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
8. P. R. Morkel, R. I. Laming, and D. N. Payne, "Noise characteristics of high-power doped-fibre superluminescent sources," Electron. Lett., vol.26, pp. 96-98, 1990.
9. H. Hodara, "Statistics of thermal and laser radiation," Proc. IEEE, vol.53, pp. 696-704, 1965.
10. W. V. Sorin and D. M. Baney, "A simple intensity noise reduction technique for optical low-coherence reflectometry," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.4, no.12, pp. 1404-1406, Dec. 1992.
11. M. Shtaif and G. Eisenstein, "Noise properties of nonlinear semiconductor optical amplifiers," Opt. Lett., vol.21, pp. 1851-1853, Nov. 15, 1996.
12. E. Desurvire and J. R. Simpson, "Amplification of spontaneous emission in erbium-doped single-mode fibers," J. Lightw. Technol., vol.7, no.5, pp. 835-845, May 1989.
13. T. Ko et al., "Ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography imaging with a broadband superluminescent diode light source," Opt. Express, vol.12, pp. 2112-2119, 2004.