Photonic Sensors, Volume. 1, Issue 3, 222(2011)

Broadband Fourier-Domain Mode-Locked Lasers

Kevin HSU1、*, Panomsak MEEMON2,3, Kye-Sung LEE3, Peter J. DELFYETT2, and Jannick P. ROLLAND2,3
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  • 1Micron Optics, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia 30345, USA
  • 2CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA
  • 3The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA
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    Broadband, high-speed wavelength-swept lasers can substantially enhance applications in optical coherence tomography, chemical spectroscopy, and fiber-optic sensing. We report the demonstration of Fourier-domain mode-lock lasers operating at about 90 kHz effective sweep rate over a 158 nm sweep range using a single-band design and over a 284 nm sweep range across the 1.3 μm to 1.5 μm wavelength spectrum using a unique broadband design. A novel dual-detection full-range Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography system is developed which provides 7 μm axial resolution (in air) at about 90 kHz axial scan rate for mirror-image resolved Doppler imaging in a human finger and an African frog tadpole.

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    Kevin HSU, Panomsak MEEMON, Kye-Sung LEE, Peter J. DELFYETT, Jannick P. ROLLAND. Broadband Fourier-Domain Mode-Locked Lasers[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2011, 1(3): 222

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    Paper Information

    Category: Regular

    Received: Sep. 3, 2010

    Accepted: Sep. 21, 2010

    Published Online: Oct. 24, 2013

    The Author Email: HSU Kevin (khsu@micronoptics.com)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-010-0006-z

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