@inproceedings{53a6071e69f44bea92f42cad8a5eb4db,
title = "Automated heterodyne method to characterize semiconductor based akinetic swept laser sources",
abstract = "An automated heterodyne method is proposed to characterize sampled grating distributed Bragg reflector (SG-DBR) lasers in terms of their lasing output wavelength, side-mode suppression ratio (SMSR) and output power. Such lasers are the core of akinetic all-semiconductor based swept sources for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the technique and obtain a broader optical and electrical understanding in DC and AC operation. A JDSU Agile SG-DBR laser was characterized and found to have a tuning range 60 nm, a center wavelength λc = 1540 nm and average lasing power of 10 mW. The result of the AC characterization is a a€tuning dictionary' that contains 379 tuning points (10 μs per tuning point).",
keywords = "Optical coherence tomography, Swept sources, Telecoms lasers, Tunable lasers",
author = "Carlos Reyes and Tomasz Piwonski and Brian Corbett and Brendan Roycroft",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 SPIE.; Optical Coherence Imaging Techniques and Imaging in Scattering Media III 2019 ; Conference date: 25-06-2019 Through 27-06-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.1117/12.2526376",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781510628397",
series = "Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Maciej Wojtkowski and Boppart, \{Stephen A.\} and Wang-Yuhl Oh",
booktitle = "Optical Coherence Imaging Techniques and Imaging in Scattering Media III",
address = "United States",
}