28 MHz swept source at 1.0 μm for ultrafast quantitative phase imaging

Biomedical Optics Express

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 3855-3864

  Wei, Xiaoming ^a   Lau, Andy K S ^a   Xu, Yiqing ^a   Tsia, Kevin K ^a   Wong, Kenneth K Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY;

BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS; EFFECTIVE SOLUTION; INTERFEROMETRIC IMAGING; MORPHOLOGICAL INFORMATION; OPTICAL IMAGING MODALITIES; QUANTITATIVE PHASE IMAGING; SINGLE-SHOT IMAGING; TUNABLE DISPERSION COMPENSATION;

OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; BIOLASER; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASER; DIGITAL IMAGING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT INTENSITY; MEASUREMENT REPEATABILITY; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; POLARIZATION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TIME STRETCH MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84948748585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21567085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.6.003855     Document Type: Article

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