DocumentCode
3541766
Title
Continuous ultra-broadband light sources for Optical Coherence Tomography
Author
Barbosa, L.C. ; De Araujo, R.E.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. & Syst., Fed. Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
fYear
2011
fDate
Oct. 29 2011-Nov. 1 2011
Firstpage
833
Lastpage
836
Abstract
This paper shows the viability of using inexpensive continuous light sources on Optical Coherence Tomography. Incandescent lamp and sunlight were applied to develop an imaging system with 2 μm of resolution (2 times better than ones commercially available). Therefore it was designed and built a sunlight collector with a tracking module included and a spectral domain optical coherence tomography imaging system. It was verified that low fluctuations of the solar spectrum intensity allow the use of this natural source on imaging systems.
Keywords
filament lamps; light sources; optical tomography; solar absorber-convertors; sunlight; continuous ultrabroadband light source; imaging system; incandescent lamp; optical coherence tomography; solar spectrum intensity; sunlight collector; Biomedical optical imaging; Coherence; Image resolution; Light sources; Optical fibers; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Optical Coherence Tomography; imaging system; light sources; sunlight;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Microwave & Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2011 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International
Conference_Location
Natal
ISSN
Pending
Print_ISBN
978-1-4577-1662-1
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IMOC.2011.6169343
Filename
6169343
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