Piezoelectrics & Acoustooptics, Volume. 42, Issue 3, 293(2020)

A Swept Light Source Based on Fiber Acousto-optical Tunable Filter

WU Zhongchao... SHEN Xiangwei, WANG Dagui, XIA Qian, WANG Xiaoxin, ZHANG Zehong and HE Xiaoliang |Show fewer author(s)
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    The swept light source is a key component of the swept source optic coherence tomography (SSOCT).A high quality swept light source can improve the imaging speed, resolution and signal-to-noise ratio of the SSOCT. In this work, a ring-cavity swept source was built by using fiber acousto-optical tunable filter (FAOTF), polarization-maintaining booster optical amplifier (PMBOA), fiber isolator and fiber coupler. The experimental results show that an all-fiber swept light source with the sweep speed of 100 kHz, sweep range of 119 nm (from 1 550.146 2 nm to 1 619.470 0 nm), single spectrum 3 dB bandwidth of 0.096 6 nm and average optical output power of 12 mW has been realized. The swept source has the advantages of wide sweep frequency range, fast speed, and good coherence and so on. It has certain practical value as a light source in SSOCT system.

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    WU Zhongchao, SHEN Xiangwei, WANG Dagui, XIA Qian, WANG Xiaoxin, ZHANG Zehong, HE Xiaoliang. A Swept Light Source Based on Fiber Acousto-optical Tunable Filter[J]. Piezoelectrics & Acoustooptics, 2020, 42(3): 293

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    Received: Mar. 3, 2020

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Apr. 21, 2022

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    DOI:10.11977/j.issn.1004-2474.2020.03.002

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