TY - GEN
T1 - 1550 nm superluminescent diode and anti-stokes effect CCD camera based optical coherence tomography for full-field optical metrology
AU - Kredzinski, Lukasz
AU - Connelly, Michael J.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a promising non-invasive imaging technology capable of carrying out 3D high-resolution cross-sectional images of the internal microstructure of examined material. However, almost all of these systems are expensive, requiring the use of complex optical setups, expensive light sources and complicated scanning of the sample under test. In addition most of these systems have not taken advantage of the competitively priced optical components available at wavelength within the main optical communications band located in the 1550 nm region. A comparatively simple and inexpensive full-field OCT system (FF-OCT), based on a superluminescent diode (SLD) light source and anti-stokes imaging device was constructed, to perform 3D cross-sectional imaging. This kind of inexpensive setup with moderate resolution could be easily applicable in low-level biomedical and industrial diagnostics. This paper involves calibration of the system and determines its suitability for imaging structures of biological tissues such as teeth, which has low absorption at 1550 nm.
AB - Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a promising non-invasive imaging technology capable of carrying out 3D high-resolution cross-sectional images of the internal microstructure of examined material. However, almost all of these systems are expensive, requiring the use of complex optical setups, expensive light sources and complicated scanning of the sample under test. In addition most of these systems have not taken advantage of the competitively priced optical components available at wavelength within the main optical communications band located in the 1550 nm region. A comparatively simple and inexpensive full-field OCT system (FF-OCT), based on a superluminescent diode (SLD) light source and anti-stokes imaging device was constructed, to perform 3D cross-sectional imaging. This kind of inexpensive setup with moderate resolution could be easily applicable in low-level biomedical and industrial diagnostics. This paper involves calibration of the system and determines its suitability for imaging structures of biological tissues such as teeth, which has low absorption at 1550 nm.
KW - Anti-Stokes imaging device
KW - Biomedical diagnostics
KW - Dentistry
KW - Full field optical coherence tomography
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84893632752
SN - 9780819486837
T3 - Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
BT - European Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2011
T2 - European Conference on Biomedical Optics, ECBO 2011
Y2 - 22 May 2011 through 26 May 2011
ER -