Quantum dot superluminescent diodes for optical coherence tomography: Device engineering

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1015-1022

  Greenwood, Purnima D L ^a   Childs, David T D ^a   Kennedy, Kenneth ^a   Groom, Kristian M ^a   Hugues, Maxime ^a   Hopkinson, Mark ^a   Hogg, Richard A ^a   Krstajić, Nikola ^a   Smith, Louise E ^a   Matcher, Stephen J ^a   Bonesi, Marco ^b   MacNeil, Sheila ^a   Smallwood, Rod ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Optical coherence tomography (OCT); quantum dot (QD); skin imaging; superluminescent diodes (SLEDs)

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; BROADBAND APPLICATIONS; COHERENCE LENGTHS; DEVICE ENGINEERING; IN-VIVO; LOWER NOISE; MULTI-CONTACT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL SPECTRA; QUANTUM DOT SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODES; QUANTUM DOTS; SINGLE MODE; SKIN IMAGING; SPECTRAL SHAPES; SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE;

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTAL GROWTH; QUANTUM THEORY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; TOMOGRAPHY; VEHICLES;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 77955518105     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2009.2038720     Document Type: Article

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