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Optics Express

  • Editor: Michael Duncan
  • Vol. 12, Iss. 22 — Nov. 1, 2004
  • pp: 5287–5295

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Optical coherence tomography using a continuous-wave, high-power, Raman continuum light source

Pei-Lin Hsiung, Yu Chen, Tony Ko, James Fujimoto, Christiano de Matos, Sergei Popov, James Taylor, and Valentin Gapontsev  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 12, Issue 22, pp. 5287-5295 (2004)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OPEX.12.005287


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Abstract

High performance, short coherence length light sources with broad bandwidths and high output powers are critical for high-speed, ultrahigh resolution OCT imaging. We demonstrate a new, high performance light source for ultrahigh resolution OCT. Bandwidths of 140 nm at 1300 nm center wavelength with high output powers of 330 mW are generated by an all-fiber Raman light source based on a continuous-wave Yb-fiber laser-pumped microstructure fiber. The light source is compact, robust, turnkey and requires no optical alignment. In vivo, ultrahigh resolution, high-speed, time domain OCT imaging with <5 µm axial resolution is demonstrated.

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OCIS Codes
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(170.3880) Medical optics and biotechnology : Medical and biological imaging
(170.4500) Medical optics and biotechnology : Optical coherence tomography
(190.4370) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, fibers

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History
Original Manuscript: August 19, 2004
Revised Manuscript: October 5, 2004
Published: November 1, 2004

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Pei-Lin Hsiung, Yu Chen, Tony Ko, James Fujimoto, Christiano de Matos, Sergei Popov, James Taylor, and Valentin Gapontsev, "Optical coherence tomography using a continuous-wave, high-power, Raman continuum light source," Opt. Express 12, 5287-5295 (2004)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-12-22-5287


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