A rapid, dispersion-based wavelength-stepped and wavelength-swept laser for optical coherence tomography

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 3414-3424

  Tozburun, Serhat ^a,b   Siddiqui, Meena ^c   Vakoc, Benjamin J ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASER; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LASERS; LIGHTING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 84893905281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.003414     Document Type: Article

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