• DocumentCode
    1996995
  • Title

    Continuous wave, all-fibre broad-band sources for optical coherence tomography

  • Author

    de Matos, C.J.S. ; Popov, S.V. ; Taylor, J.R. ; Hsiung, P. ; Chen, Y. ; Nishizawa, N. ; Herz, P.R. ; Ko, T.H. ; Fujimoto, J.G. ; Broeng, J. ; Gapontsev, V.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Femtosecond Opt. Group, Imperial Coll.
  • Volume
    1
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    16-21 May 2004
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate in vivo OCT imaging with < 5 um resolution in tissue at ~1.3 mum wavelength using a new compact, CW, 330 mW, 140 nm bandwidth, holey-fibre continuum light source pumped by a single-mode Yb-fibre laser
  • Keywords
    biological tissues; biomedical optical imaging; fibre lasers; image resolution; laser applications in medicine; light sources; optical pumping; optical tomography; 330 mW; continuous wave all-fibre broad-band sources; in vivo OCT imaging; optical coherence tomography; single-mode Yb-fibre laser;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    1-55752-777-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    1361795