Abstract
In this study, the use of a continuous-wave (CW) supercontinuum (SC) seeded by an erbium-doped fiber's amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) for optical-coherence tomography imaging is experimentally demonstrated. It was shown, by taking an in-depth image of a human tooth sample, that due to the smooth, flat spectrum and long-term stability of the proposed CW SC, it can be readily applied to the spectral-domain optical-coherence tomography system. The relative-intensity noise level and spectral bandwidth of the CW SC are also experimentally analyzed as a function of the ASE beam power.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 49-54 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of the Optical Society of Korea |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Mar 2010 |
Keywords
- Biomedical optics
- Broadband light sources
- Fiber optics
- Imaging
- Optical coherence tomography