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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 15, Issue 7, Pages 3833-3848Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003833
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We present a novel generalized model for the analysis of noise with a known spectral density. This model is particularly appropriate for the analysis of noise with a 1/f(alpha) a distribution. The noise model reveals that, for alpha > 1, 1/f(alpha) noise significantly impacts the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for integration times that near a characteristic time, beyond which the SNR will no longer significantly improve with increasing integration time. We experimentally verify our theoretical findings with a set of experiments employing a quadrature homodyne optical coherence tomography (OCT) system and find good agreement. The characteristic integration time is measured to be approximately 2 ms for our system. Additionally, we find that the 1/f noise characteristics, including the exponent, alpha, as well as the characteristic integration time, are system and photodetector dependent. (c) 2007 Optical Society of America.
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