Optical coherence tomography based on intensity correlations of quasi-thermal light

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Zerom, Petros; Piredda, Giovanni; Boyd, Robert W.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
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Abstract
We show theoretically that the longitudinal resolution of conventional optical coherence tomography can be improved by a factor of radic2 when a two-photon (as opposed to a single-photon) sensitive detector is used, and we present preliminary supporting results.
Date issued
2009-08
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73939
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics
Journal
Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Citation
Zerom, P. "Optical coherence tomography based on intensity correlations of quasi-thermal light" Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009 and 2009 Conference on Quantum electronics and Laser Science Conference. CLEO/QELS 2009, IEEE. © Copyright 2009 IEEE
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978-1-55752-869-8
978-1-55752-869-8
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