Title :
Supercontinuum generated by noise-like pulses for spectral-domain optical coherence tomography
Author :
Yi-Jing You ; Chengming Wang ; Ping Xue ; Zaytsev, Alexey ; Ci-Ling Pan
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Photonics Technol., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan
Abstract :
A supercontinuum with over 420-nm of spectral bandwidth is generated in a single-modefiber pumped by noise-like-pulses from an Yb-doped fiber laser. The supercontinuum source is successfully employed in a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography imaging system.
Keywords :
fibre lasers; high-speed optical techniques; laser modes; optical noise; optical tomography; supercontinuum generation; ytterbium; noise-like pulses; single-modefiber; spectral-domain optical coherence tomography; supercontinuum generation; Fiber nonlinear optics; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical fibers; Optical imaging; Optical pumping;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
