The effect of water dispersion and absorption on axial resolution in ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography
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Hillman, T.R. and Sampson, David (2005) The effect of water dispersion and absorption on axial resolution in ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography Optics Express, 13 (6). pp. 1860-1874.
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We examine the effects of dispersion and absorption in ultrahigh-resolution optical coherence tomography (OCT), particularly the necessity to compensate for high dispersion orders in order to narrow the axial point-spread function envelope. We present a numerical expansion in which the impact of the various dispersion orders is quantified; absorption effects are evaluated numerically. Assuming a Gaussian source spectrum (in the optical frequency domain), we focus on imaging through water as a first approximation to biological materials. Both dispersion and absorption are found to be most significant for wavelengths above ~1µm, so that optimizing the system effective resolution (ER) requires choosing an operating wavelength below this limit. As an example, for 1-µm source resolution (FWHM), and propagation through a 1-mm water cell, if up to third-order dispersion compensation is applied, then the optimal center wavelength is 0.8µm, which generates an ER of 1.5µm (in air). The incorporation of additional bandwidth yields no ER improvement, due to uncompensated high-order dispersion and long-wavelength absorption.
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Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
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| Date : | 2005 | |||||||||
| DOI : | 10.1364/OPEX.13.001860 | |||||||||
| Uncontrolled Keywords : | Absorption, Bandwidth, Frequency domain analysis, Lasers, Medical imaging, Optical resolving power, Optical transfer function, Biological imaging, Dispersion, Optical coherence tomography, Wavelengths, Tomography | |||||||||
| Depositing User : | Maria Rodriguez-Marquez | |||||||||
| Date Deposited : | 11 Jun 2018 09:06 | |||||||||
| Last Modified : | 19 Sep 2018 11:32 | |||||||||
| URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/846921 |
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