Title :
Full dispersion compensation in real-time optical coherence tomography with a phase/frequency modulator
Author :
Chen, Yuchuan ; Liu, Xiumei ; Cobb, Michael J. ; Thariani, Rahber ; Li, Xingde
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Bioeng., Washington Univ., Seattle, WA, USA
Abstract :
The dispersion of a real-time optical coherent tomography system including a phase modulator was compensated up to the third order. The axial resolution was fully recovered experimentally, which matches very well with theoretical predictions.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; compensation; frequency modulation; optical delay lines; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; optical tomography; phase modulation; axial resolution; frequency modulator; full dispersion compensation; phase modulator; real-time optical coherence tomography;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2004. (CLEO). Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-777-6
