• Chinese Optics Letters
  • Vol. 21, Issue 5, 051102 (2023)
Yukun Wang1、2, Si Chen1, Kan Lin1, Xi Chen1, Zhengyang Xu1, Shiliang Lou3, Xin Ge4, Guangming Ni5, Xiaojun Yu6, Jianhua Mo7, Quanquan Mu2, and Linbo Liu1、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798, Singapore
  • 2State Key Laboratory of Applied Optics, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130033, China
  • 3Key Laboratory of Opto-Electronics Information Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Precision Instruments and Opto-Electronic Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China
  • 4School of Science, Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China
  • 5School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, China
  • 6School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710129, China
  • 7School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/COL202321.051102 Cite this Article Set citation alerts
    Yukun Wang, Si Chen, Kan Lin, Xi Chen, Zhengyang Xu, Shiliang Lou, Xin Ge, Guangming Ni, Xiaojun Yu, Jianhua Mo, Quanquan Mu, Linbo Liu. Multi-channel spectral-domain optical coherence tomography using single spectrometer[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(5): 051102 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    Multi-channel detection is an effective way to improve data throughput of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SDOCT). However, current multi-channel OCT requires multiple detectors, which increases the complexity and cost of the system. We propose a novel multi-channel detection design based on a single spectrometer. Each camera pixel receives interferometric spectral signals from all the channels but with a spectral shift between two channels. This design effectively broadens the spectral bandwidth of each pixel, which reduces relative intensity noise (RIN) by M times with M being the number of channels. We theoretically analyzed the noise of the proposed design under two cases: shot-noise limited and electrical noise or RIN limited. We show both theoretically and experimentally that this design can effectively improve the sensitivity, especially for electrical noise or RIN-dominated systems.
    ne=ηPτ/hλ0,

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    S(τ)Peak=ρητhλ0P0NγrγsRrRs,

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    σnoise2=σshot2+σel2+σRIN2,

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    σshot2=ρητhλ0P0N(γsRs+γrRr).

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    σRIN2=τ2Δλ(ρηhλ0P0N)2(γsRs+γrRr)2,

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    S(dB)=10×log10((ρητhλ0P0N)2γrγsRrσel2+ρητhλ0P0NγrRr(1+12Δλρηhλ0P0NγrRr)).

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    S(dB)=10×log10(MNrefNsMNref+σel2+(f/(MΔλ))(MNref)2),

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    S(dB)=10×log10(NsNrefNref+(σel2+(f/Δλ)Nref2)/M).

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    Yukun Wang, Si Chen, Kan Lin, Xi Chen, Zhengyang Xu, Shiliang Lou, Xin Ge, Guangming Ni, Xiaojun Yu, Jianhua Mo, Quanquan Mu, Linbo Liu. Multi-channel spectral-domain optical coherence tomography using single spectrometer[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2023, 21(5): 051102
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