Wideband Electrically Pumped 1050-nm MEMS-Tunable VCSEL for Ophthalmic Imaging
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John, Demis D.
Burgner, Christopher B.
Potsaid, Benjamin
Robertson, Martin E.
Choi, Woo Jhon
Cable, Alex E.
Fujimoto, James G.
Jayaraman, Vijaysekhar
Lee, ByungKun
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February 2015
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Journal of Lightwave Technology
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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John, Demis D., Christopher B. Burgner, Benjamin Potsaid, Martin E. Robertson, Byung Kun Lee, Woo Jhon Choi, Alex E. Cable, James G. Fujimoto, and Vijaysekhar Jayaraman. “Wideband Electrically Pumped 1050-Nm MEMS-Tunable VCSEL for Ophthalmic Imaging.” Journal of Lightwave Technology 33, no. 16 (August 15, 2015): 3461–3468.
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In this paper, we present a 1050-nm electrically pumped microelectromechanically tunable vertical cavity surface-emitting laser (MEMS-VCSEL) with a record dynamic tuning bandwidth of 63.8 nm, suitable for swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) imaging. These devices provide reduced cost and complexity relative to previously demonstrated optically pumped devices by obviating the need for a pump laser and associated hardware. We demonstrate ophthalmic SS-OCT imaging with the electrically-pumped MEMS-VCSEL at a 400 kHz axial scan rate for wide-field imaging of the in vivo human retina over a 12 mm × 12 mm field and for OCT angiography of the macula over 6 mm × 6 mm and 3 mm × 3 mm fields to show retinal vasculature and capillary structure near the fovea. These results demonstrate the feasibility of electrically pumped MEMS-VCSELs in ophthalmic instrumentation, the largest clinical application of OCT. In addition, we estimate that the 3 dB coherence length in air is 225 ± 51 m, far greater than required for ophthalmic SS-OCT and suggestive of other distance ranging applications.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2397860
