Fourier domain mode-locked swept source at 1050 nm based on a tapered amplifier

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 15820-15831

  Marschall, Sebastian ^a   Klein, Thomas ^b   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^b   Hsu, Kevin ^c   Hansen, Kim P ^d   Sumpf, Bernd ^e   Hasler, Karl Heinz ^e   Erbert, Götz ^e   Jensen, Ole B ^a   Pedersen, Christian ^a   Huber, Robert ^b   Andersen, Peter E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MICRON OPTICS INC   (United States)

^d NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUT FÜR HÖCHSTFREQUENZTECHNIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DISPERSIONS; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL FIBERS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; DISPERSION EFFECT; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; FIBER DELAY LINES; FOURIER DOMAINS; GAIN ELEMENTS; GAIN MEDIA; GAIN MEDIUM; HIGH DISPERSION; HIGH GAIN; HIGH-SPEED; MODE-LOCKED; OUTPUT POWER; REPETITION RATE; RETINAL IMAGING; SWEPT SOURCE; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TAPERED AMPLIFIER;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; CYTOLOGY; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; MELON; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; CUCUMIS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 77954943931     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.015820     Document Type: Article

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