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Michael Maria, Ivan Bravo Gonzalo, Thomas Feuchter

    Optics Letters
    |November 16, 2017
    PubMed
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    Commercially available Q-switch-pumped supercontinuum (QS-SC) sources offer a cost-effective and stable alternative for ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography (UHR-OCT). By adjusting camera readout times, comparable image contrast to mode-locked sources is achievable.

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