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Biomed Opt Express
; 9(10): 4834-4849, 2018 Oct 01.
Artículo
en Inglés
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-30319906
RESUMEN
The infrared spectral region beyond 1.7 µm is of utmost interest for biomedical applications due to strong overtone and combination absorption bands in a variety of important biomolecules such as lactates, urea, glucose, albumin, etc. In this article, we report on recent progress in widely tunable swept-wavelength lasers based on type-I GaSb gain-chip technology, setting a new state-of-the-art in the 1.7 - 2.5 µm range laser sources. We provide an application example for the spectroscopic sensing of several biomolecules in a cuvette as well as an experimental demonstration of a non-invasive in-vivo sensing of human serum albumin through the skin.