We present a fibre-based swept-source optical coherence tomography system based on a translation stage to scan sections of ex-vivo tissue samples, achieving a scanning range of 5x5mm2 at a minimum scanning step resolution of 0.5μm
An automated heterodyne method is proposed to characterize sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) lasers in terms of their lasing output wavelength, side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) and output power. Such lasers are the core of akinetic all-semiconductor based swept sources for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the technique and obtain a broader optical and electrical understanding in DC and AC operation. A JDSU Agile SG-DBR laser was characterized and found to have a tuning range ≈ 60 nm, a center wavelength λc = 1540 nm and average lasing power of 10 mW. The result of the AC characterization is a ‘tuning dictionary' that contains 379 tuning points (10 μs per tuning point).
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