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BIOMEDICAL OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 10, 期 2, 页码 772-788出版社
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/BOE.10.000772
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- NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
- EPSRC [EP/N019229/1]
- ERC [754695]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
- EPSRC [EP/N019229/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- European Research Council (ERC) [754695] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
We present an optical coherence tomography (OCT) method that can deliver an-face OCT image from a sample in real-time, irrespective of the tuning speed of the swept source. The method, based on the master slave interferometry technique, implements a coherence gate principle by requiring that the optical path difference (OPD) between the arms of an imaging interferometer is the same with the OPD in an interrogating interferometer. In this way, a real-time en-face OCT image can originate from a depth in the sample placed in the imaging interferometer, selected by actuating on the OPD in the interrogating interferometer, while laterally scanning the incident beam over the sample. The generation of the en-face image resembles time domain OCT, with the difference that here the signal is processed based on spectral domain OCT. The optoelectronic processor operates down-conversion of the chirped radio frequency signal delivered by the photo-detector. The down-conversion factor is equal to the ratio of the maximum frequency of the photo-detected signal due to an OPD value matching the coherence length of the swept source, to the sweeping rate. This factor can exceed 10(6) for long coherence swept sources. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
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