Polarization-maintaining buffered Fourier domain mode-locked swept source for optical coherence tomography

• Published in: Optics letters Vol. 36; no. 24; p. 4788
• Main Authors: Zhang, Jun, Jing, Joe, Wang, Pinghe, Chen, Zhongping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 15.12.2011
• Subjects: Amplifiers, Electronic; Buffers; Calibration; Equipment Design; Fingers - pathology; Fourier Analysis; Humans; Lasers; Microscopy, Polarization - methods; Optics and Photonics - methods; Reproducibility of Results; Semiconductors; Time Factors; Tomography, Optical Coherence - methods

A polarization-maintaining buffered Fourier domain mode-locked (FDML) swept source with a center wavelength of 1300 nm is demonstrated. The scanning rate of the buffered FDML swept source is doubled without sacrificing the output power of the swept source by combining two orthogonally polarized outp...