Doppler optical coherence tomography with a micro-electro-mechanical membrane mirror for high-speed dynamic focus tracking

Opt Lett. 2006 May 1;31(9):1262-4. doi: 10.1364/ol.31.001262.

Abstract

An elliptical microelectromechanical system (MEMS) membrane mirror is electrostatically actuated to dynamically adjust the optical beam focus and track the axial scanning of the coherence gate in a Doppler optical coherence tomography (DOCT) system at 8 kHz. The MEMS mirror is designed to maintain a constant numerical aperture of approximately 0.13 and a spot size of approximately 6.7 microm over an imaging depth of 1mm in water, which improves imaging performance in resolving microspheres in gel samples and Doppler shift estimation precision in a flow phantom. The mirror's small size (1.4 mm x 1 mm) will allow integration with endoscopic MEMS-DOCT for in vivo applications.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Computer Systems
  • Doppler Effect*
  • Electronics
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Image Enhancement / instrumentation*
  • Image Enhancement / methods
  • Interferometry / instrumentation*
  • Interferometry / methods
  • Lenses*
  • Membranes, Artificial*
  • Miniaturization
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / instrumentation*
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods

Substances

  • Membranes, Artificial