Title :
Spectroscopic tomography with dispersive coherence tomography
Author :
Watanabe, W. ; Nomura, E. ; Itoh, K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Appl. Phys., Osaka Univ., Japan
Abstract :
We proposed a low-coherence interferometric technique called dispersive coherence spectrotomography to extract both range and spectral properties of a sample. We apply this technique to the measurements of plants and biological samples with supercontinuum.
Keywords :
Michelson interferometers; biological techniques; interference spectroscopy; light coherence; light interferometry; optical tomography; Michelson interferometer; biological samples; depth resolution; dispersive coherence spectrotomography; dispersive coherence tomography; linear gray level; low-coherence interferometric technique; plants; range properties; shrimp tail; spectral decomposition; spectral resolution; spectrally dispersed image; spectroscopic tomography; supercontinuum; uncertainty relationship; white-light interferogram; Biomedical optical imaging; Dispersion; Lenses; Nonlinear optics; Optical interferometry; Optical scattering; Optical signal processing; Signal resolution; Spectroscopy; Tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2001. CLEO/Pacific Rim 2001. The 4th Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Chiba, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6738-3
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2001.967868
