• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 6, Issue 12, 905 (2008)
Qiang Gong1、2、*, Chuanmao Fan1、2, Fan Zhang1、2, and Jianquan Yao1、2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Optoelectric Information Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
  • 2Institute of Laser and Optoelectronics, College of Precision Instrument and Optoelectronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL20080612.0905 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Qiang Gong, Chuanmao Fan, Fan Zhang, Jianquan Yao. In vitro birefringence imaging with spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(12): 905 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (SDPS-OCT) is a depth-resolved polarization-sensitive interferometry which integrates polarization optics into spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). This configuration can obtain birefringence information of samples and improve the imaging speed. In this paper, horizontally polarized light is used to replace natural light of the source. Then, right-rotated circularly polarized light is the incident sample light. To obtain two orthogonal components of the polarized interferogram, the reflected light of the reference arm is set to be 45O linearly polarized light. These two components are acquired by two spectrometers synchronously. The system was employed to achieve 12.8-\mum axial resolution and 4.36-\mum transverse resolution. We have imaged in vitro chicken tendon and muscle tissues with these system.
    Qiang Gong, Chuanmao Fan, Fan Zhang, Jianquan Yao. In vitro birefringence imaging with spectral domain polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2008, 6(12): 905
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