The National Eye Institute (NEI) requires FDML light source in order to assembly of next generation adaptive optics
Instrument. The OptoRes FDML swept source laser is a >1.6 MHz sweep speed, 4x buffered, FC/APC connector, 1060 nm center wavelength, 75 nm sweep range light source with a custom manufactured phase locked loop for sample clock generation, synchronization and beam scanner control. This light source is currently utilized at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in a state-of-the-art adaptive optics optical coherence tomography (AO-OCT) system that is based on the use of this specific swept source laser. Reference to this system can be found at: J. of Biomedical Optics, 22(10), 106018 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.22.10.106018. We are replicating the experimental procedures that are described here and the OptoRes FDML swept source laser must be used. There is no other light source manufacturer that can produce a light source that is directly compatible with the custom-built adaptive optics instrumentation described by the UC Davis system.

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