- Patent Title: Optical-coherence-tomography apparatus and surface-emitting laser
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Application No.: US15322587Application Date: 2015-06-22
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Publication No.: US09945657B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Yuichiro Hori
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Canon U.S.A., Inc. IP Division
- Priority: JP2014-135391 20140630
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/003108 WO 20150622
- International Announcement: WO2016/002160 WO 20160107
- Main IPC: H01S5/18
- IPC: H01S5/18 ; G01B9/02 ; H01S5/0683 ; H01S5/183 ; H01S5/06 ; H01S5/04 ; H01S5/042

Abstract:
An optical-coherence-tomography apparatus includes a light-source unit configured to emit light while changing a wavelength of the light; an optical interferometric system configured to split the light from the light-source unit into illuminating light to be applied to an object and reference light, and to generate interfering light from the illuminating light reflected by the object and the reference light; a photodetection unit configured to receive the interfering light, and an information-acquiring unit configured to acquire information on the object from the interfering light received by the photodetection unit. The light-source unit performs wavelength sweep by displacing a movable portion with an electrostatic force generated with the application of a voltage. The optical-coherence-tomography apparatus further includes a pull-in-detection unit configured to detect whether or not a pull-in effect is occurring on the movable portion of the light-source unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170138720A1 OPTICAL-COHERENCE-TOMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND SURFACE-EMITTING LASER Public/Granted day:2017-05-18
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