Fiber-Based Polarization Diversity Detection for Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Imaging System
2.2. System Calibration
2.3. Analytic Framework
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflict of Interest
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Pahlevaninezhad, H.; Lee, A.M.D.; Cahill, L.; Lam, S.; MacAulay, C.; Lane, P. Fiber-Based Polarization Diversity Detection for Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography. Photonics 2014, 1, 283-295. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics1040283
Pahlevaninezhad H, Lee AMD, Cahill L, Lam S, MacAulay C, Lane P. Fiber-Based Polarization Diversity Detection for Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography. Photonics. 2014; 1(4):283-295. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics1040283
Chicago/Turabian StylePahlevaninezhad, Hamid, Anthony M. D. Lee, Lucas Cahill, Stephen Lam, Calum MacAulay, and Pierre Lane. 2014. "Fiber-Based Polarization Diversity Detection for Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography" Photonics 1, no. 4: 283-295. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics1040283