Extended-cavity semiconductor wavelength-swept laser for biomedical imaging

被引：79

作者：

Yun, SH ^{[1
]}

Boudoux, C

Pierce, MC

de Boer, JF

Tearney, GJ

Bouma, BE

机构：

[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Boston, MA 02114 USA

[2] Massachusetts Gen Hosp, Wellman Labs Photomed, Boston, MA 02114 USA

[3] MIT, Harvard MIT Div Hlth Sci & Technol, Boston, MA 02114 USA

[4] MIT, Dept Nucl Engn, Wellman Labs Photomed, Boston, MA 02114 USA

来源：

IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS | 2004年 / 16卷 / 01期

关键词：

optical coherence tomography (OCT) semiconductor lasers; tunable lasers;

D O I：

10.1109/LPT.2003.820096

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

We demonstrate a compact high-power rapidly swept wavelength tunable laser source based on a semiconductor optical amplifier and an extended-cavity grating filter. The laser produces excellent output characteristics for biomedical imaging, exhibiting >4-mW average output power, <0.06-nm instantaneous linewidth, and >80-dB noise extinction with its center wavelength swept over 100 nm at 1310 nm at variable repetition rates up to 500 Hz.

引用

页码：293 / 295

页数：3

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