Fourier domain optical coherence tomography system with balance detection

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 17522-17538

  Bradu, Adrian ^a   Podoleanu, Adrian Gh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHOT NOISE; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

BALANCED CONFIGURATIONS; BALANCED DETECTION; CHANNELED SPECTRUM; EXCESS PHOTON NOISE; FIXED PATTERN NOISE; FOURIER DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; LINEAR CAMERAS; MULTIPLE LAYERS; POWER THRESHOLDS; REAL TIME; REAL-TIME OPERATION; REFERENCE BEAMS; SATURATION POWER; SINGLE CAMERAS; SOURCE SPECTRUM;

CAMERAS;

EID: 84864606297     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.017522     Document Type: Article

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