Title :
Continuous wave, all-fibre broad-band sources for optical coherence tomography
Author :
de Matos, C.J.S. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Hsiung, P. ; Chen, Y. ; Nishizawa, N. ; Herz, P.R. ; Ko, T.H. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Broeng, J. ; Gapontsev, V.P.
Author_Institution :
Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll.
Abstract :
We demonstrate in vivo OCT imaging with < 5 um resolution in tissue at ~1.3 mum wavelength using a new compact, CW, 330 mW, 140 nm bandwidth, holey-fibre continuum light source pumped by a single-mode Yb-fibre laser
Keywords :
biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; fibre lasers; image resolution; laser applications in medicine; light sources; optical pumping; optical tomography; 330 mW; continuous wave all-fibre broad-band sources; in vivo OCT imaging; optical coherence tomography; single-mode Yb-fibre laser;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
