• DocumentCode
    2664217
  • Title

    Focus Tracking in Time Domain Optical Coherence Tomography using Membrane Mirrors Operated Near Snap-Down

  • Author

    Dickensheets, David L. ; Overcast, Marshall ; Himmer, Phillip ; Yang, Victor X.D. ; Vitkin, I.Alex

  • Author_Institution
    Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Montana State Univ., Bozeman, MT
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    21-24 Aug. 2006
  • Firstpage
    170
  • Lastpage
    171
  • Abstract
    We describe MEMS membrane mirrors for dynamic focus tracking in time-domain OCT. We demonstrate stable, distortion-compensated nearly sinusoidal motion at 10 kHz at an amplitude of 50% of the air gap
  • Keywords
    bioMEMS; biomedical optical imaging; micro-optomechanical devices; micromirrors; optical tomography; 10 kHz; MEMS membrane mirrors; distortion-compensation; focus tracking; sinusoidal motion; time domain optical coherence tomography; time-domain OCT; Biomedical optical imaging; Biomembranes; Focusing; Micromechanical devices; Mirrors; Optical distortion; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Time domain analysis; Tomography;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Optical MEMS and Their Applications Conference, 2006. IEEE/LEOS International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Big Sky, MT
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9562-X
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/OMEMS.2006.1708319
  • Filename
    1708319