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  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • OSA Technical Digest (Optica Publishing Group, 1996),
  • paper CTuU5

Spectrally shaped rare-earth-doped fiber ASE sources for use in optical coherence tomography

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Abstract

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven over the past few years to be a powerful new optical imaging modality.1-4 OCT uses interferometric detection and a short-coherence-length light source to achieve high sensitivity, high-dynamic range, and high resolution (1-10 μm). Biomedical applications include ophthalmology, microscopy, endoscopy, laproscopy, determotology, developmental biology, dentistry, etc.1-3 One of the key components in OCT systems is the optical source. This paper presents preliminary results on the use of spectrally flattened rare-earth-doped fiber ASE source in OCT systems.

© 1996 Optical Society of America

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