Single-camera polarization-sensitive full-field optical coherence tomography with polarization switch

J Biomed Opt. 2013 Oct;18(10):100504. doi: 10.1117/1.JBO.18.10.100504.

Abstract

We present a single-channel detection-based polarization-sensitive full-field optical coherence tomography (PS-FF-OCT) for simultaneous acquisition of high-resolution OCT and linear retardance images. A linearly polarized sub-10-fs laser was used as a broadband light source for the OCT system. A bi-stable polarization switching device, composed of a ferroelectric liquid crystal cell and an analyzer, was employed to get the horizontal and the vertical polarization components of a full-field interference signal. The time-switched two perpendicular interference signals were sequentially recorded by a single charge-coupled device camera, then processed to extract en-face functional images of a biological sample. The rat tail tendon was imaged ex vivo to confirm the imaging feasibility of the proposed system, which showed axial and transverse resolutions of 2 and 1.3 μm, respectively.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / methods*
  • Models, Biological
  • Rats
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted
  • Tendons / anatomy & histology
  • Tendons / chemistry
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods*