Broadband Fourier domain mode-locked laser for optical coherence tomography at 1060 nm

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8213, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Marschall, Sebastian ^a   Klein, Thomas ^b   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Torzicky, Teresa ^c   Pircher, Michael ^c   Biedermann, Benjamin R ^b   Pedersen, Christian ^a   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^c   Huber, Robert ^b   Andersen, Peter E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Optical Imaging and its Translation to Medicine   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS; TISSUE; WATER ABSORPTION;

AVERAGE OUTPUT POWER; BROAD GAIN BANDWIDTH; DEPTH RESOLUTION; HIGH OUTPUT POWER; MODE-LOCKED LASER; SEMICONDUCTOR OPTICAL AMPLIFIER (SOAS); WAVELENGTH RANGES; WIDE FIELD OF VIEW;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861921247     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.906148     Document Type: Conference Paper

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