Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada.
Opt Lett. 2009 Sep 15;34(18):2814-6. doi: 10.1364/OL.34.002814.
We report a high-power wavelength-swept laser source for multichannel optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Wavelength tuning is performed by a compact telescope-less polygon-based filter in Littman arrangement. High output power is achieved by incorporating two serial semiconductor optical amplifiers in the laser cavity in Fourier domain mode-locked configuration. The measured wavelength tuning range of the laser is 111 nm centered at 1329 nm, coherence length of 5.5 mm, and total average output power of 131 mW at 43 kHz sweeping rate. Multichannel simultaneous OCT imaging at an equivalent A-scan rate of 258 kHz is demonstrated.
我们报告了一种用于多通道光学相干断层扫描(OCT)成像的高功率波长扫描激光源。波长调谐通过基于 Littman 布置的紧凑无望远镜多边形滤波器来实现。通过在激光腔中采用两个串联的半导体光放大器,实现了傅里叶域锁模配置中的高输出功率。所测量的激光波长调谐范围为 1329nm 中心波长的 111nm,相干长度为 5.5mm,在 43kHz 的扫描速率下总平均输出功率为 131mW。演示了等效 A 扫描速率为 258kHz 的多通道同时 OCT 成像。