Performance of megahertz amplified optical time-stretch optical coherence tomography (AOT-OCT)

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 22498-22512

  Xu, Jingjiang ^a   Wei, Xiaoming ^a   Yu, Luoqin ^a   Zhang, Chi ^a   Xu, Jianbing ^a   Wong, K K Y ^a   Tsia, Kevin K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; SHOT NOISE; TOMOGRAPHY;

AMPLIFICATION SCHEME; COHERENCE LENGTHS; FIBER RAMAN AMPLIFICATION; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; PERFORMANCE METRICES; SWEPT SOURCE OCT; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; THEORETICAL MODELING;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES;

HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907483888     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.022498     Document Type: Article

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