Novel wavelength-swept Raman laser is newly demonstrated to implement an arbitrary gain band for a swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Instead of conventional semiconductor optical amplifier, we adapt optical fiber Raman amplification, which can easily generate an instant femto-second optical gain at arbitrary wavelength region from 1.1 to 1.6 micrometer using a high-power optical pump power. We also experimentally demonstrate OCT images using the novel wavelength-swept Raman laser source.

Date Published: 20 February 2009
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Proc. SPIE 7168, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIII, 716823 (20 February 2009); doi: 10.1117/12.808877

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 7168:
Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIII
James G. Fujimoto; Joseph A. Izatt; Valery V. Tuchin, Editor(s)