Dual-fiber stretcher as a tunable dispersion compensator for an all-fiber optical coherence tomography system.
We present an all-fiber tunable dispersion compensator based on a pair of fiber stretchers made with different fiber types in which the group delay and the second-order dispersion can be tuned independently. Its efficiency is demonstrated in a fiber-based optical coherence tomography (OCT) system operating in the 800 nm wavelength range. The average sample dispersion in OCT imaging or the dispersion of transmission lines could also be compensated by our system.
Physics Department, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. s.iyer@auckland.ac.nz
Sairam
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Iyer
Stéphane
S
Coen
Frédérique
F
Vanholsbeeck
D003198:Computer Simulation; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000295:instrumentation; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D007368:Interferometry / Q000379:methods; D016011:Normal Distribution; D055100:Optical Fibers; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D012031:Refractometry / Q000295:instrumentation; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods