Ultrahigh-speed optical coherence tomography utilizing all-optical 40 MHz swept-source

Tiancheng Huo, Chengming Wang, Xiao Zhang, Tianyuan Chen, Wenchao Liao, Wenxin Zhang, Shengnan Ai, Jui Cheng Hsieh, Ping Xue*

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Abstract

We present an ultrahigh-speed optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on an all-optical sweptsource with an A-scan rate of 40 MHz. The inertia-free swept-source, which has its output power of 41.2 mW and tuning range of 40 nm and high scan linearity in wavenumber with Pearson's correlation coefficients r of 0.9996, consists of a supercontinuum laser, an optical band-pass filter, a linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating, an erbiumdoped fiber amplifier, and two buffer stages. With sensitivity of 87 dB, high-speed OCT imaging of biological tissue in vivo is also demonstrated.

Original languageEnglish
Article number030503
JournalJournal of Biomedical Optics
Volume20
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2015
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • linearly chirped fiber Bragg grating
  • optical coherence tomography
  • swept-source

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