by Sylvain Rivet, textbfManuel J. Marques, Adrian Bradu and Adrian Podoleanu
Abstract:
The paper presents a proof-of-concept polarization-sensitive swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) system that performs measurements of the retardance as well as of the axis orientation of a linear birefringent sample. The system performs single input state polarization-sensitive OCT and employs an optical module based on optically passive elements such as two beam displacers and a Faraday rotator. Our implementation of the PS-OCT system does not need any calibration step to compensate for the polarimetric effect of the fibers, and its operation does not require a balanced polarization-diversity detector. The optical module allows measurement of the two polarization properties of the sample via two measurements which are performed simultaneously.
Reference:
Passive optical module for polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography systems (Sylvain Rivet, textbfManuel J. Marques, Adrian Bradu and Adrian Podoleanu), In Opt. Express, OSA, volume 25, 2017.
Bibtex Entry:
@article{rivet2017optical,
author = {Sylvain Rivet and textbf{Manuel J. Marques} and Adrian Bradu and Adrian Podoleanu},
journal = {Opt. Express},
keywords = {Optical coherence tomography; Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology; Polarimetric imaging},
number = {13},
pages = {14533--14544},
publisher = {OSA},
title = {Passive optical module for polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography systems},
volume = {25},
month = {Jun},
year = {2017},
url = {http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-25-13-14533},
doi = {10.1364/OE.25.014533},
abstract = {The paper presents a proof-of-concept polarization-sensitive swept source optical coherence tomography (OCT) system that performs measurements of the retardance as well as of the axis orientation of a linear birefringent sample. The system performs single input state polarization-sensitive OCT and employs an optical module based on optically passive elements such as two beam displacers and a Faraday rotator. Our implementation of the PS-OCT system does not need any calibration step to compensate for the polarimetric effect of the fibers, and its operation does not require a balanced polarization-diversity detector. The optical module allows measurement of the two polarization properties of the sample via two measurements which are performed simultaneously.},
}