Spectrally sampled OCT imaging based on 1.7-μm continuous-wave supercontinuum source

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1200-1208

  Jung, Eun Joo ^a   Lee, Ju Han ^b   Rho, Byung Sup ^a   Kim, Myoung Jin ^a   Hwang, Sung Hwan ^a   Lee, Woo Jin ^a   Song, Jae Jin ^c   Jeong, Myung Yung ^d   Kim, Chang Seok ^d  

^a Korea Photonics Technology Institute (KOPTI)   (South Korea)

^b University of Seoul   (South Korea)

^c Seoul National University Bundang Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Pusan National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Continuous wave (CW) supercontinuum (SC) source; fiber optics; optical coherence tomography (OCT); Sagnac effect

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVES; DYNAMIC RANGE IMPROVEMENT; GAUSSIAN SPECTRA; HIGH OUTPUT POWER; MULTI-WAVELENGTH LIGHT SOURCES; OCT IMAGING; OCT SIGNALS; OPTICAL ILLUMINATION; OPTICAL POWER; REGION-BASED; SAGNAC EFFECT; SUPERCONTINUUM; SUPERCONTINUUM SOURCES; TEMPORAL INSTABILITY;

COMB FILTERS; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; WATER ABSORPTION;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 84862303745     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2011.2167962     Document Type: Article

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