Abstract

Photoacoustic imaging and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are the fastest growing fields in biomedical imaging. Supercontinuum (SC) sources offer great advantages to both of these modalities however, currently no suitable source has been developed to answer the requirements for both multispectral photoacoustic microscopy (MPAM) and OCT, i.e. a SC source with more than 50 nJ per bandwidth of less than 20 nm over a broad range covering the visible and the IR. In addition a pulse duration of 1-10 ns and a pulse repetition rate of tens of kHz are required with low pulse-to-pulse noise for enhanced image quality.

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