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Photonic Sensors

, Volume 1, Issue 3, pp 222–227 | Cite as

Broadband Fourier-domain mode-locked lasers

  • Kevin HsuEmail author
  • Panomsak Meemon
  • Kye-Sung Lee
  • Peter J. Delfyett
  • Jannick P. Rolland
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Abstract

Broadband, high-speed wavelength-swept lasers can substantially enhance applications in optical coherence tomography, chemical spectroscopy, and fiber-optic sensing. We report the demonstration of Fourier-domain mode-lock lasers operating at about 90 kHz effective sweep rate over a 158 nm sweep range using a single-band design and over a 284 nm sweep range across the 1.3 μm to 1.5 μm wavelength spectrum using a unique broadband design. A novel dual-detection full-range Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography system is developed which provides 7 μm axial resolution (in air) at about 90 kHz axial scan rate for mirror-image resolved Doppler imaging in a human finger and an African frog tadpole.

Keywords

Fourier-domain mode-locked laser swept laser tunable laser 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Kevin Hsu
    • 1
    Email author
  • Panomsak Meemon
    • 2
    • 3
  • Kye-Sung Lee
    • 3
  • Peter J. Delfyett
    • 2
  • Jannick P. Rolland
    • 3
    • 2
  1. 1.Micron Optics, Inc.AtlantaUSA
  2. 2.CREOL, The College of Optics and PhotonicsUniversity of Central FloridaOrlandoUSA
  3. 3.The Institute of OpticsUniversity of RochesterRochesterUSA

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