Title :
Spatially incoherent random lasers for full field optical coherence tomography
Author :
Redding, B. ; Choma, M.A. ; Cao, H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate control of the spatial coherence of random laser emission by tuning the scattering strength and excitation volume. The optimized, spatially incoherent source is applied to full-field optical coherence tomography to mitigate crosstalk.
Keywords :
crosstalk; laser tuning; light coherence; light scattering; optical tomography; crosstalk mitigation; excitation volume; full field optical coherence tomography; optimized spatially incoherent source; random laser emission; scattering strength; spatial coherence; spatially incoherent random lasers; Coherence; Laser excitation; Optical scattering; Pump lasers; Spatial coherence; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
