• DocumentCode
    520232
  • Title

    1.7 µm wavelength tunable supercontinuum source for optical coherence tomography

  • Author

    Ishida, S. ; Nishizawa, N. ; Ohta, T. ; Itoh, K.

  • Author_Institution
    Div. of Adv. Sci. & Biotechnol., Osaka Univ., Suita, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    High resolution and high penetration depth OCT is demonstrated with Gaussian shaped, center wavelength tunable, 230 nm wide bandwidth, high power supercontinuum at 1.65-1.73 μm wavelengths region using ultrashort pulse fiber laser based system.
  • Keywords
    fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; optical tomography; supercontinuum generation; Gaussian shaped; optical coherence tomography; ultrashort pulse fiber laser; wavelength 1.65 mum to 1.73 mum; wavelength tunable supercontinuum source; Biomedical optical imaging; Coherence; Fiber nonlinear optics; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber polarization; Optical pulse generation; Optical solitons; Tomography; Tunable circuits and devices; Ultrafast optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-55752-890-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5499801