Miniature spectrometer and beam splitter for an optical coherence tomography on a silicon chip

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 16648-16656

  Akca, B I ^a   Povazay B ^b   Alex, A ^b   Worhoff K ^a   De Ridder, R M ^a   Drexler, W ^b   Pollnau, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYED WAVEGUIDE GRATINGS; PRISMS; SILICON; SPECTROMETERS;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; CENTRAL COMPONENT; CLINICAL APPLICATION; CURRENT LIMITATION; FREE SPECTRAL RANGE; MEDICAL DIAGNOSTICS; MINIATURE SPECTROMETER; WAVELENGTH RESOLUTION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN; SPECTROSCOPY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INTERFEROMETRY; MINIATURIZATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SILICON; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84880550279     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.016648     Document Type: Article

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