Long coherence length and linear sweep without an external optical k-clock in a monolithic semiconductor laser for inexpensive optical coherence tomography

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 8213, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ensher, Jason ^a   Boschert, Paul ^a   Featherston, Katherine ^a   Huber, Jonathan ^a   Crawford, Michael ^a   Minneman, Michael ^a   Chiccone, Chris ^b   Derickson, Dennis ^b  

^a Insight Photonic Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed Bragg reflector diode lasers; OCT; OFDR; Optical coherence tomography; SS OCT; Swept laser; Swept source OCT; Tunable laser; VT DBR

Indexed keywords

CLOCKS; DBR LASERS; DISTRIBUTED BRAGG REFLECTORS; LASER TUNING; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL MATERIALS; SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

OCT; OFDR; SS-OCT; SWEPT LASERS; SWEPT-SOURCE OCT; VT-DBR;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84887415442     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.911477     Document Type: Conference Paper

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