External amplification of OCT swept-sources for challenging applications: from 10 mW to more than 120 mW

Maxime Rivard; Alain Villeneuve; Guy Lamouche

doi:10.1117/12.2254904

28 March 2017 External amplification of OCT swept-sources for challenging applications: from 10 mW to more than 120 mW

Maxime Rivard, Alain Villeneuve, Guy Lamouche

Proceedings Volume 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI; 100532I (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254904
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

For bioimaging applications, commercial swept-sources currently provide enough power (tens of milliwatts) insuring good imaging condition without damaging the tissues. For industrial applications, more power is needed since the amount of light collected can be very low due to challenging measurement conditions or due to poor sample reflectivity. To address this challenge, we explore three different setups to externally amplify the output of a commercial swept-source: a booster semiconductor optical amplifier (BOA), an erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and a combination of both. These external amplification setups allow the exploration of emerging OCT applications without the need to develop new hardware.

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Maxime Rivard, Alain Villeneuve, and Guy Lamouche "External amplification of OCT swept-sources for challenging applications: from 10 mW to more than 120 mW", Proc. SPIE 10053, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XXI, 100532I (28 March 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2254904

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