Spectral-domain, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography system insensitive to fiber disturbances

Manuel J. Marques; Sylvain Rivet; Adrian Bradu; Adrian Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.2213479

8 March 2016 Spectral-domain, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography system insensitive to fiber disturbances

Manuel J. Marques, Sylvain Rivet, Adrian Bradu, Adrian Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX; 96971K (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213479
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

This communication presents a spectral-domain, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) system based on a fiber interferometer using single-mode fibers and couplers. The two orthogonal polarization components which define the polarization state are sequentially detected by a single line camera. Retardance measurements can be affected by polarimetric effects in fibers and couplers. This configuration bypasses such issues by performing the polarization selection before the collection fiber, employing a combination of a polarization rotator and a linear polarizer. Numerical simulations are carried out to verify the tolerance of the proposed configuration to fiber-based disturbances; this was further experimentally verified with similar net retardance maps of a birefringent phantom being obtained for two different settings of induced fiber birefringence.

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Manuel J. Marques, Sylvain Rivet, Adrian Bradu, and Adrian Podoleanu "Spectral-domain, polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography system insensitive to fiber disturbances", Proc. SPIE 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX, 96971K (8 March 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2213479

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