Thermal light optical coherence tomography for transmissive objects

Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, and Vision

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1922-1926

  Liu, Xue Feng ^a   Yao, Xu Ri ^a   Chen, Xi Hao ^a,c   Wu, Ling An ^b   Zhai, Guang Jie ^a  

^a CENTER FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND APPLIED RESEARCH   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^c LIAONING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; GHOST IMAGING; LONGITUDINAL RESOLUTION; OPTICAL PATH; SECOND ORDERS; THERMAL LIGHT;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84866550473     PISSN: 10847529     EISSN: 15208532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAA.29.001922     Document Type: Article

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