Characterization of wavelength swept laser for optical coherence tomography imaging

Author

Jeon, Min Yong ; Zhang, Jun ; Wang, Qiang ; Chen, Zhongping

Author_Institution

Beckman Laser Inst., Univ. of California, Irvine, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

4-9 May 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

We report the characteristics of a wavelength swept laser with a scanning fiber Fabry-Perot filter in the 1300 nm. We investigate the dependence of the scanning frequencies of the conventional and Fourier domain mode-locked (FDML) wavelength swept laser. In the FDML swept laser, the transient intensity profiles and the tuning bandwidths were investigated according to the injection currents and detuning of the scanning frequency. In addition, the transient intensity profiles showed significant asymmetric behavior according to the detuned frequencies.

Keywords

Fabry-Perot resonators; Fourier transform optics; biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; laser applications in medicine; laser beams; laser cavity resonators; laser mode locking; laser tuning; laser variables measurement; optical fibres; optical tomography; spatial filters; Fourier domain mode-locked swept laser; asymmetric behavior; injection currents; optical coherence tomography imaging; scanning fiber Fabry-Perot filter; scanning frequency detuning; transient intensity profiles; tuning bandwidths; wavelength 1300 nm; wavelength swept laser characterization; Coherence; Fabry-Perot; Fiber lasers; Frequency; Laser mode locking; Laser tuning; Optical fiber filters; Optical filters; Optical imaging; Tomography; (110.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (140.3510) Lasers, fiber;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-55752-859-9

Type

conf

Filename

4571262