MEMS tunable VCSEL light source for ultrahigh speed 60kHz - 1MHz axial scan rate and long range centimeter class OCT imaging

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8213, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Potsaid, Benjamin ^a,b   Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar ^c   Fujimoto, James G ^b   Jiang, James ^a   Heim, Peter J S ^d   Cable, Alex E ^a  

^a THORLABS INC   (United States)

^b Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^c Praevium Research Inc   (United States)

^d Thorlabs Quantum Electronics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Medical Imaging; Ophthalmology; Optical Coherence Tomography; Swept Source; VCSEL

Indexed keywords

LIGHT SOURCES; MEDICAL IMAGING; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; SPEED; SURFACE EMITTING LASERS; TECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGICAL SAMPLES; COHERENCE LENGTHS; CRITICAL TECHNOLOGIES; LONG COHERENCE LENGTH; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; SWEPT SOURCE; TUNABLE BANDWIDTH; WAVELENGTH TUNING;

MOEMS;

EID: 84866649032     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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