High-speed polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography scan engine based on Fourier domain mode locked laser

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2987-3000

  Bonesi, Marco ^a   Sattmann, Harald ^a   Torzicky, Teresa ^a   Zotter, Stefan ^a   Baumann, Bernhard ^a   Pircher, Michael ^a   Götzinger, Erich ^a   Eigenwillig, Christoph ^b   Wieser, Wolfgang ^b   Huber, Robert ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; DEPOLARIZATION; ENGINES; FOURIER SERIES; LASERS; LIGHT SOURCES; LOCKS (FASTENERS); OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY;

CIRCULARLY POLARIZED LIGHT; DEGREE OF POLARIZATION; FIBER TECHNOLOGY; HIGH-SPEED POLARIZATION; POLARIZATION MAINTAINING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SWEEP FREQUENCIES; WAVELENGTH REGIMES;

MODE-LOCKED FIBER LASERS;

EID: 84869115340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.3.002987     Document Type: Article

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