Title :
Optical coherence tomography implemented by photonic crystal fiber
Author :
Seon Young Ryu ; Hae Young Choi ; Jihoon Na ; EunSeo Choi ; Byeong Ha Lee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Commun., Gwangju Inst. of Sci. & Technol., South Korea
Abstract :
We report a fabricated photonic crystal fiber (PCF) coupler, which has a rather flat coupling ratio over a 400 nm spectral range and enabled a 3-μm resolution. It might enable a white-light as the source for biological samples.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; image resolution; light sources; medical image processing; optical fibre couplers; optical fibre fabrication; optical tomography; photonic crystals; 400 nm; biological samples; coupling ratio; fiber fabrication; optical coherence tomography; photonic crystal fiber coupler; white-light; Bandwidth; Biomedical optical imaging; Fiber nonlinear optics; Light sources; Optical imaging; Photonic crystal fibers; Skin; Spatial resolution; Superluminescent diodes; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Biophotonics, 2004. APBP 2004. The Second Asian and Pacific Rim Symposium on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8676-0
DOI :
10.1109/APBP.2004.1412256
