High-speed cross-sectional imaging of valuable documents using common-path swept-source optical coherence tomography

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 34, 2011, Pages

  Fujiwara, Kazuo ^a,b   Matoba, Osamu ^b  

^a GLORY LTD   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOMOGRAPHY;

CROSS-SECTIONAL IMAGING; DEPTH RESOLUTION; MEASURED SIGNALS; REPETITION RATE; SECURITY FEATURES; SIGNAL INTENSITIES; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TRANSPORT SPEED;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 83155182768     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.00H165     Document Type: Article

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