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SLEDs and Swept Source Laser Technology for OCT

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Optical Coherence Tomography

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EXALOS offers broadband and high-power superluminescent light-emitting diodes (SLEDs) and high-speed wavelength-swept lasers, covering various visible and near-infrared wavelength regions (390–1,700 nm). These diverse wavelengths are realized in different semiconductor material systems such as GaN, GaAs, or InP. Those light sources are used in various fields such as navigation, optical coherence tomography (OCT), metrology, sensing, and microscopy. Detailed discussions on SLED characteristics and key swept-source OCT system design parameters are presented.

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Acknowledgment

The above-mentioned results are an outcome of a dedicated team of individuals working at EXALOS, namely, S. Gloor, A.H. Bachmann, M. Epitaux, T. von Niederhäusern, P. Vorreau, N. Matuschek, M. Rossetti, A. Hold, K. Brossi, and many others as well.

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    Marcus Duelk & Kevin Hsu

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  1. Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University Vienna, General Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Drexler

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    James G. Fujimoto

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Duelk, M., Hsu, K. (2015). SLEDs and Swept Source Laser Technology for OCT. In: Drexler, W., Fujimoto, J. (eds) Optical Coherence Tomography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06419-2_19

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