OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY USING RAPID WAVELENGTH TUNING OF A CR4+FORSTERITE LASER

Authors
GOLUBOVIC B BOUMA BE TEARNEY GJ FUJIMOTO JG
Citation
B. Golubovic et al., OPTICAL FREQUENCY-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY USING RAPID WAVELENGTH TUNING OF A CR4+FORSTERITE LASER, Optics letters, 22(22), 1997, pp. 1704-1706
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Optics
Journal title
Optics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
01469592
Volume
22
Issue
22
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1704 - 1706
Database
ISI
SICI code
0146-9592(1997)22:22<1704:OFRURW>2.0.ZU;2-O
Abstract
We present a cw chromium-doped forsterite laser that permits rapid wav elength tuning over a broad bandwidth and demonstrate the application of this source to frequency-domain ranging and optical tomography. The entire tuning range of 1200 to 1275 nm can be swept in less than 500 mu s. This permits frequency-domain ranging to be performed with a sca n rate of 2 kHz and an axial resolution of 15 mu m. (C) 1997 Optical S ociety of America.