A Fiber Based Interferometer with Discrete Tunable Laser for Fourier Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

Author

Wei, Luo ; Xiaohong, Ma ; Huafeng, Zhao

Author_Institution

Tsinghua Univ., Beijing

fYear

2006

fDate

16-18 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

64

Lastpage

67

Abstract

We demonstrate a fiber interferometer with a discrete tunable laser source, which has the feasibility to be utilized in Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT). The structure of the experimental system, its operation principle and theoretical analysis are presented, showing that sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) lasers have the potentiality to be adopted as light source in FD-OCT.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; Fourier transform optics; biomedical optical imaging; fibre lasers; laser applications in medicine; laser tuning; light interferometers; light sources; optical tomography; FD-OCT; Fourier domain optical coherence tomography; SG-DBR; discrete tunable laser; fiber interferometer; light source; sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector lasers; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber lasers; Laser theory; Laser tuning; Light sources; Optical interferometry; Optical scattering; Tomography; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics; FD-OCT; SG-DBR laser; discrete light source;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biophotonics, Nanophotonics and Metamaterials, 2006. Metamaterials 2006. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9773-8

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9774-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/METAMAT.2006.334999

Filename

4134738