Low noise, high-brightness, broadband, all-fiber CW sources for OCT around 1300nm

OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Series

Volumn 94, Issue , 2004, Pages 123-125

  De Matos, C J S ^a   Popov, S V ^a   Taylor, J R ^a   Hansen, K P ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NKT PHOTONICS A S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES; SOLITONS; TOMOGRAPHY;

FEMTOSECOND PUMP SOURCES; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY (OCT); OPTICAL POWER; SPECTRAL POWER DENSITY;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 8744297119     PISSN: 10945695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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