• DocumentCode
    2110309
  • Title

    In vivo OCT imaging based on La-codoped bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber

  • Author

    Jianbing Xu ; Haiyan Ou ; Xie Wang ; Chui, P.C. ; Tam, Hwa Yaw ; Wong, Kenneth K. Y.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    8-12 Sept. 2013
  • Firstpage
    10
  • Lastpage
    11
  • Abstract
    We report a FDML swept laser based on Bi-EDF fiber for the first time. A sweeping bandwidth of 81 nm is achieved. In vivo OCT imaging is presented to justify the feasibility of this work.
  • Keywords
    erbium; lanthanum; laser applications in medicine; optical fibre amplifiers; optical tomography; FDML swept laser; bismuth-based erbium-doped fiber; in vivo OCT imaging; Bandwidth; Cavity resonators; Gain; Imaging; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Wavelength division multiplexing; Fiber; erbium; optical coherence tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Bellevue, WA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1506-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656340
  • Filename
    6656340