Multiple-depth en face optical coherence tomography using active recirculation loops

Opt Lett. 2010 Jul 1;35(13):2296-8. doi: 10.1364/OL.35.002296.

Abstract

We present a novel low-coherence interferometer configuration, equipped in each arm with an adjustable optical path length ring. By compensating for the losses in the rings using semiconductor optical amplifiers, interference of low-coherence light after traversing the two rings 18 times is obtained. This configuration is employed to demonstrate simultaneous en face optical coherence tomography imaging at five different depths in a Drosophila melanogaster fly.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Drosophila melanogaster
  • Larva
  • Light
  • Linear Models
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Spectrum Analysis
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*