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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Bellevue, WA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1506-8
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2013.6656340
