Demonstration of Shot-noise-limited Swept Source OCT Without Balanced Detection

Abstract Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been utilized in a rapidly growing number of clinical and scientific applications. In particular, swept source OCT (SS-OCT) has attracted many attentions due to its excellent performance. So far however, the limitations of existing photon detectors hav...

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Main Authors: Vala Fathipour, Tilman Schmoll, Alireza Bonakdar, Skylar Wheaton, Hooman Mohseni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-04-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01339-6