Spectrally sampled OCT imaging based on 1.7-μm continuous-wave supercontinuum source

Eun Joo Jung, Ju Han Lee, Byung Sup Rho, Myoung Jin Kim, Sung Hwan Hwang, Woo Jin Lee, Jae Jin Song, Myung Yung Jeong, Chang Seok Kim

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Abstract

We demonstrate a novel multiwavelength light source around the 1.7-μm region based on continuous-wave (CW) supercontinuum (SC) generation for the deeper imaging of low-water-absorption sample with a spectrally sampled optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. This self-regulated Gaussian spectrum of CW SC source has an extremely smooth flat width with more than 210-nm full-width at half-maximum bandwidth centered at the 1.7-μm region, a high output power of 500 mW, and a low temporal instability with less than 0.1 dB for an hour. In order to improve the OCT signal sensitivity without increasing the optical illumination power, a multiwavelength light source based on this CW SC was implemented by using a tunable fiber Sagnac comb filter. When it was applied to the spectrally sampled OCT imaging, the multiwavelength light source enabled a dynamic range improvement, compared to conventional continuous spectral light source with the same average optical power.

Original languageEnglish
Article number6018983
Pages (from-to)1200-1208
Number of pages9
JournalIEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics
Volume18
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012

Keywords

  • Continuous-wave (CW) supercontinuum (SC) source
  • Sagnac effect
  • fiber optics
  • optical coherence tomography (OCT)

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