Design and performance of broadly tunable, narrow line-width, high repetition rate 1310nm VCSELs for swept source optical coherence tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8276, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jayaraman, V ^a   Jiang, J ^b   Potsaid, B ^b   Cole, G ^c   Fujimoto, J ^d   Cable, A ^b  

^a Praevium Research Inc   (United States)

^b THORLABS INC   (United States)

^c Advanced Optical Microsystems   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Optical Coherence Tomography; Swept Source; Tunable Laser; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE REGIONS; COHERENCE LENGTHS; DIELECTRIC MIRRORS; DYNAMIC TUNING; GAAS; HIGH REPETITION RATE; HIGH-SPEED; LOW NOISE; MULTIQUANTUM WELLS; OCT IMAGING; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; OPTICAL POWER; OPTICAL SOURCE; SINGLE MODE OPERATION; SPECTROSCOPIC APPLICATION; STATE-OF-THE-ART SYSTEM; SWEPT SOURCE; SWEPT SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHIES; TUNING RANGES; VASCULAR IMAGING; VERTICAL CAVITY SURFACE EMITTING LASER;

FREQUENCY RESPONSE; LASER TUNING; MIRRORS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS;

MOEMS;

EID: 84857216373     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906920     Document Type: Conference Paper

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