• DocumentCode
    2255815
  • Title

    Spatially incoherent random lasers for full field optical coherence tomography

  • Author

    Redding, B. ; Choma, M.A. ; Cao, H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Phys., Yale Univ., New Haven, CT, USA
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate control of the spatial coherence of random laser emission by tuning the scattering strength and excitation volume. The optimized, spatially incoherent source is applied to full-field optical coherence tomography to mitigate crosstalk.
  • Keywords
    crosstalk; laser tuning; light coherence; light scattering; optical tomography; crosstalk mitigation; excitation volume; full field optical coherence tomography; optimized spatially incoherent source; random laser emission; scattering strength; spatial coherence; spatially incoherent random lasers; Coherence; Laser excitation; Optical scattering; Pump lasers; Spatial coherence; Stimulated emission;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951270