Fourier Domain mode locked (FDML) lasers for polarization sensitive OCT

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 7372, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Palte, Gesa ^a   Wieser, Wolfgang ^a   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph M ^a   Huber, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

(110.4500) imaging systems: Optical coherence tomography; (140.3600) lasers; Fourier domain mode locking (FDML); Tunable

Indexed keywords

(110.4500) IMAGING SYSTEMS: OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; (140.3600) LASERS; ALTERNATING SEQUENCES; FOURIER DOMAIN MODE LOCKING; FOURIER DOMAINS; MODE-LOCKED; POINCARE SPHERE; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZATION-SENSITIVE OCT; TUNABLE;

FOURIER TRANSFORMS; POLARIZATION; SPHERES; TOMOGRAPHY;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 79959355108     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.831835     Document Type: Conference Paper

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