Combined Neodymium - Ytterbium-doped ASE fiber-optic source for optical coherence tomography applications

IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-23

  Trifanov, I ^a   Caldas, P ^b   Neagu, L ^a   Romero, R ^a   Berendt, M O ^a   Salcedo, J A R ^a   Podoleanu, A Gh ^c   Lobo Ribeiro, Antnio B ^d  

^a Multiwave Photonics SA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSIDADE FERNANDO PESSOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

ASE optical source; broadband fiber source; optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

1060 NM; AMPLIFIED SPONTANEOUS EMISSIONS; BROADBAND FIBER SOURCE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMMONLY USED; COMPACT FIBERS; EMISSION SPECTRUMS; FIBER-OPTIC SOURCES; FILTERING SCHEMES; IN-FIBER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICAL SOURCE; OUTPUT POWER; POWER OPTIMIZATION; SPECTRAL BANDWIDTH; SPECTRAL SHAPING; VASCULATURE; YTTERBIUM DOPED FIBERS; YTTERBIUM-DOPED;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; FIBER LASERS; FIBER OPTICS; NEODYMIUM; OPTIMIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY; YTTERBIUM;

FIBERS;

EID: 78650573210     PISSN: 10411135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2010.2090039     Document Type: Article

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