High-resolution spectrometer: solution to the axial resolution and ranging depth trade-off of SD-OCT
| Autor: | Audrey K. Ellerbee, Hee Yoon Lee, Tahereh Marvdashti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
Physics
genetic structures medicine.diagnostic_test Spectrometer business.industry Physics::Medical Physics Resolution (electron density) Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Imaging spectrometer Field of view eye diseases Interferometry Optics Optical coherence tomography medicine sense organs Prism business Remote sensing Echelle grating |
| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2003865 |
| Popis: | We demonstrate a cross-dispersed spectrometer for Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT). The resolution of a conventional SD-OCT spectrometer is limited by the available sizes of the linear array detectors. The adverse consequences of this finite resolution is a trade-off between achieving practical field of view (i.e. ranging depth) and maintaining high axial resolution. Inspired by spectrometer designs for astronomy, we take advantage of very high pixel-density 2D CCD arrays to map a single-shot 2D spectrum to an OCT A-scan. The basic system can be implemented using a high-resolution Echelle grating crossed with a prism in a direction orthogonal to the dispersion axis. In this geometry, the interferometric light returning from the OCT system is dispersed in two dimensions; the resulting spectrum can achieve more pixels than a traditional OCT spectrometer (which increases the ranging depth) and maintains impressive axial resolution because of the broad bandwidth of the detected OCT light. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first demonstration of OCT data using an Echelle-based cross-dispersed spectrometer. Potential applications for such a system include high-resolution imaging of the retina or the anterior segment of the eye over extended imaging depths and small animal imaging. |
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