All-semiconductor high-speed akinetic swept-source for OCT

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8311, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Minneman, Michael P ^a   Ensher, Jason ^a   Crawford, Michael ^a   Derickson, Dennis ^b  

^a Insight Photonic Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

FBG; OCT; OFDR; Optical coherence tomography; SS OCT; Swept source OCT; Tunable laser; VT DBR

Indexed keywords

FBG; OCT; OFDR; SS-OCT; SWEPT SOURCE; VT-DBR;

DBR LASERS; FABRICATION; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; LASER TUNING; LASERS; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL SENSORS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PHOTONICS; TUNING;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

EID: 84855233934     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.912119     Document Type: Conference Paper

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