Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 56, Issue 20, 201101(2019)

High-Speed Broadband Swept Source

Pengfei Wang1,2, Xinglin Tong1,2、*, Chengwei Deng2, Qiao Xiong1,2, and Chunjiao Jin2
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  • 1School of Information Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
  • 2National Engineering Laboratory for Fiber Optic Sensing Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430070, China
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    ing at the problem of insufficient sweep range of the swept source used in the existing swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT), a Fourier domain mode-locking(FDML) high-speed broadband swept source based on a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier (QD-SOA) and a quantum well semiconductor optical amplifier (QW-SOA) in parallel is studied. The output characteristics of two types of SOA are studied, and the QW-SOA with a center wavelength of 1310 nm and the QD-SOA with a center wavelength of 1280 nm are placed in parallel in the fiber annular cavity. A high-speed broadband swept source is developed combined with FDML. The sweep range is 318 nm, the full width at half maximum is 110 nm, the sweep speed is 101 kHz, the average output optical power is 7.8 mW, and the instantaneous linewidth is less than 0.1 nm, respectively.

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    Pengfei Wang, Xinglin Tong, Chengwei Deng, Qiao Xiong, Chunjiao Jin. High-Speed Broadband Swept Source[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2019, 56(20): 201101

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    Paper Information

    Category: Imaging Systems

    Received: Apr. 17, 2019

    Accepted: Apr. 25, 2019

    Published Online: Oct. 22, 2019

    The Author Email: Tong Xinglin (tongxinglin@whut.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP56.201101

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