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We present a new design of a Fourier Domain Mode Locked laser (FDML laser), which provides a new record in sweep
range at ~1μm center wavelength: At the fundamental sweep rate of 2x417 kHz we reach 143nm bandwidth and 120nm
with 4x buffering at 1.67MHz sweep rate. The latter configuration of our system is characterized: The FWHM of the
point spread function (PSF) of a mirror is 5.6μm (in tissue). Human in vivo retinal imaging is performed with the MHz
laser showing more details in vascular structures. Here we could measure an axial resolution of 6.0μm by determining
the FWHM of specular reflex in the image. Additionally, challenges related to such a high sweep bandwidth such as
water absorption are investigated.
Jan Philip Kolb,Thomas Klein,Matthias Eibl,Tom Pfeiffer,Wolfgang Wieser, andRobert Huber
"Megahertz FDML laser with up to 143nm sweep range for ultrahigh resolution OCT at 1050nm", Proc. SPIE 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX, 969703 (8 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214758
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Jan Philip Kolb, Thomas Klein, Matthias Eibl, Tom Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Wieser, Robert Huber, "Megahertz FDML laser with up to 143nm sweep range for ultrahigh resolution OCT at 1050nm," Proc. SPIE 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX, 969703 (8 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214758