A NOVEL SWEPT LASER SOURCE BASED ON COMBINED TUNABLE FILTERS FOR OCT

MINGHUI CHEN; ZHIHUA DING; LING WANG; TONG WU; YUANHAO TAO

doi:10.1142/s1793545811001228

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