Numerical compensation of system polarization mode dispersion in polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1163-1180

  Zhang, Ellen Ziyi ^a   Oh, Wang Yuhl ^b   Villiger, Martin L ^a   Chen, Liang ^c   Bouma, Brett E ^a,d   Vakoc, Benjamin J ^a,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARY FLOW; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL FIBERS; POLARIZATION MODE DISPERSION;

CALIBRATION SIGNAL; INTRALIPIDS; NUMERICAL COMPENSATION; PMD COMPENSATION; POLARIZATION SENSITIVE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

GLASS FIBER; LIPID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIREFRINGENCE; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; CHICKEN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SKELETAL MUSCLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TENDON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIREFRINGENCE; CALIBRATION; CHICKENS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; LIGHT; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHYSICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TENDONS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84872743388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.001163     Document Type: Article

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