Dispersive Coherence Spectrotomography with White-Light Continuum

We propose dispersive coherence spectrotomography with white-light continuum to extract both range and spectral properties inside a medium. The main feature is that the dispersive coherence spectrotomography has a high dynamic range in depth and high signal-to-noise ratio making the most of the extreme brightness of the white-light continuum.     

Coherence Spectrotomography: Optical Spectroscopic Tomography with Low-Coherence Interferometry

In low-coherence reflectometry, light scattered back from a medium is expected to contain spectral properties as well as range information on the reflective boundaries and backscattering sites. Low-coherence interferometric systems with particular signal-processing techniques have been proposed that can extract both the range and spectral properties inside the medium simultaneously. This class of systems is called coherence spectrotomography. In this paper, basic principles of coherence spectrotomography are reviewed referring to the experimental results on multi-layered media.     

Coherent Array of White-Light Continuum Generated by Microlens Array

We generated a white-light continuum array by directing femtosecond laser pulses into a liquid with a microlens array. Experimental evidence demonstrates that the spatial coherence is high within a single light source in the array. We also confirmed that all the light sources in the white-light continuum array are mutually coherent. We found that the simple self-phase modulation model cannot explain this high coherence between the white continuum sources.     

Optical Coherence Tomography Premiere in Korea

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is considered as fundamentally new image modality having advantages such as high-speed, real-time cross sectional imaging with non-invasive in vivo investigation of biological tissue and its potential for clinical application is highly evaluated. In spite of these merits, the research activity in OCT has not taken much attention until recently. However the situation in Korea is gradually changing due to understanding of its versatile applications. Active research and commercialization are underway. Bulk optics-based OCT system is changed into alignfree fiber-optics system. With our expertise in the fabrication of fiber grating devices and strong background in control of fiber based system, we hope to contribute in developing simplified all-fiber OCT system with better performance. As a leading research group, working on OCT, we have firstly implemented fiber-based OCT system in Korea and demonstrated the imaging performance with glass plate and onion.     

光纤白光干涉技术的回顾与展望

光纤白光干涉技术与方法是光纤技术领域中独具特色的一种测量方法和传感技术,是光纤技术多领域交叉应用中较为有代表性的一个分支.该项技术在宽谱光干涉特性研究、绝对形变光纤传感测量、光波导器件的结构及其对光波反射特性参量的检测、光纤陀螺环中光偏振态横向耦合测量与评估以及医学临床诊断的组织结构形态的光学层析技术等方面,都具有广泛...     

Polarization Sensitive Spectral Interferometric Optical Coherence Tomography for Biological Samples

A spectral interferometric optical coherence tomography (OCT) system which has polarization sensitivity is developed. This system reduces the mechanical scanning dimension by employing the principle of spectral interferometry, and measures a two dimensional cross-sectional image of biological tissue with one dimensional mechanical scanning. Sixteen OCT images with different polarization conditions are measured, and two dimensional distributions of each element of the Müller matrix of a sample to be measured are calculated.     

垂直扫描白光干涉术用于微机电系统的尺寸表征

随着微机电系统的发展,器件设计和加工过程中的表征成为一个主要问题。提出了将扫描白光干涉表面轮廓测量方法用于微结构和器件的几何特性检测上。测量系统采用了米劳显微干涉仪,利用压电陶瓷物镜纳米定位器实现垂直方向100μm范围内的精确扫描,并通过傅里叶变换算法获取条纹包络峰的位置,进而得到器件的整体集合尺寸信息,与相移干涉方法相比大大提高了测量范围。通过测量纳米台阶对该系统进行了精度标定,测量重复性在亚纳米量级。最后通过测量微谐振器和微压力传感器的几何尺寸说明了该方法的功能。     

光学相干层析成像系统的实验研究

介绍了作者研究建立的光学相干层析（ＯＣＴ）成像系统,给出了利用该系统得以的实际生物样品光学相干层析图像,并对系统性能和结果作了分析,讨论了影响系统性能的一些因素及改进方法。     

基于观察矩阵的频域光学相干层析成像图像重构算法

频域光学相干层析成像技术是一种新型的医学成像技术,其传统的图像重构算法主要是基于傅里叶变换。但这种重构算法的主要缺陷在于其纵向分辨率随着深度位置的变化而明显下降。为了使频域光学相干层析成像系统的纵向分辨率在整个成像深度内基本保持不变,提出了一种基于观察矩阵的图像重构法,并用该法重构了平面镜以及皮肤信号。结果表明,这种图像重构法能够使频域光学相干层析成像系统保持纵向分辨率不变。与文献报道相比,这种方法在保持系统简单性的同时,还保持了高的纵向分辨率,并在成像深度范围内使得纵向分辨率基本保持不变。     

基于白光干涉的自稳定定量相位成像系统

提出和建立了基于白光干涉的自稳定定量相位成像系统.该系统以柯勒照明的白光迈克耳孙干涉计为基础,使用自稳定锁相电路以减少相位噪音,引入相移装置获得定量的相化位图像.实验分别以平面镜、标准测试图和聚苯乙烯小球为样品.获得了清晰的定量相位图像,实现了对样品的实时观测.该装置采用卤素灯照明,达到轴向分辨力5 nm,系统中的柯勒照明结构使其具有高空间相干性.实验结果表明,该装置能有效避免系统中其他光学表面(如系统中的透镜表面)干扰信号的影响.     

Non-Scanning Optical Coherence Tomography Using Off-Axis Interferometry with an Angular-Dispersion Imaging Scheme

We present a non-scanning approach for real-time optical coherence tomography (OCT). Our approach is based on an off-axis interferometer that laterally projects the time-of-flight or depth information of the sample onto an image sensor. To facilitate the use of an off-axis interferometer in OCT, an angular-dispersion imaging method has been developed. Theoretical analysis and experimental results are presented to demonstrate that this method is capable of demodulating the interferogram and thus permits a direct inspection of the depth-resolved image. Depth resolution and detection range of the present method are also studied.     

利用变迹术和相干门相结合实现光学相干层析成像术轴向超分辨

光学相十层析成像（光学相干层析成像术）的轴向分辨力由光源带宽和探测光束的聚焦条件共同决定。提高光学相干层析成像术轴向分辨力的方法主要基于带宽光源技术。提出了一种将变迹术与光学相十层析成像术相干门有机结合的方法来提高其轴向分辨力。通过适当形式的光瞳滤波器．使光学相干层析成像术系统轴向响应的主瓣宽度缩小到相干门之内,而其旁瓣则处于相干门之外．不对相干成像产生有效贡献。这样．就能在光源带宽不变的条件下,有效提高光学相十层析成像术的轴向分辨力,避免了采用宽带光源所带来的费用昂贵和系统复杂等缺陷。     

样品散射对频域光学相干层析成像光谱形状和深度分辨率的影响

研究了样品散射性质对频域光学相干层析成像干涉谱信号和深度分辨率的影响。理论分析和模拟结果表明:样品散射使干涉谱信号的强度分布发生改变且向长波方向偏移,进而降低了成像的深度分辨率;样品的散射系数越大、深度越深,偏移越严重,深度分辨率降低越多;使用相应的校正函数可以提高深度分辨率。     

结合计算层析与光学相干层析测量折射率分布

通过将计算层析技术与光学相干层析技术相结合,测量散射介质非均匀折射率分布。该方法测量散射样品折射率分布时,通过光学相干层析技术测量散射样品折射率分布在多个方向上的投影,采用计算层析技术实现对样品折射率分布的层析重建,克服了传统折射率光学测量方法如单纯的基于光学相干层析原理的焦点追迹法和光程匹配法,不能测量散射介质非均匀折射率分布的缺点。采用该方法在实验中对梯度折射率棒的径向相对折射率分布进行层析重建,取得了较好的实验结果。     

Atmospheric Gas Detection with Broadband Sources

We investigate a new experimental method for detecting molecules from the ultraviolet to the near infrared range using ultrashort laser pulses. Two types of sources are used: a white light continuum generated by 200khz Ti: Sapphire regenerative amplifier system, and a near-gaussian femtosecond pulse (100 fs) generated by an optical parametric amplifier and tunable from 0.45 to 2.4 m. Up to now, this technique has only been performed in the visible domain. Both broadband sources allow the detection of the oxygen and the water vapor bands. Moreover, a new extraction method has been implemented, which provides the molecules' concentration by using a nonlinear fit technique.     

纳秒激光烧蚀固体靶产生的等离子体在外加横向磁场中膨胀时的温度和密度参数演化

利用等离子体光学波段自发光成像、光学光谱和光学探针干涉等诊断手段, 观察了纳秒脉冲激光烧蚀固体靶产生的等离子体在外加横向磁场中的膨胀过程. 根据实验参数特征建立了简化的磁流体物理模型, 结合自发光强度的时间演化, 理论计算了等离子体温度和密度参数的时间演化, 理论计算结果与实验测量结果基本符合, 证实了碰撞磁扩散过程在等离子体演化中发挥了关键作用.     

Range Technique in Scattering Medium Using a Needle-Fiber Optical Coherence Tomography System

A needle-fiber optical coherence tomography (OCT) system designed for guiding epidural anesthesia to a target is presented. In the preliminary experiment, a desired target in tofu as a strong scattering medium can be monitored over a sufficient range of several millimeters within a short measuring time. The axial resolution is 21 μm. In order to investigate the ranging performance, the relation between background noise levels and focus-scattering properties in a confocal optical system is numerically studied by use of Monte Carlo technique. Numerical results indicate that an appropriate focal length of the lens attached to the fiber should be used to separate the OCT signal from strong noise in strongly scattered medium.     

光学相干层析系统相干传递函数研究

在弱物体近似下从成像系统角度对光学相干层析测量技术进行了理论研究。分析了该技术测量样品纵深结构时图像的形成机理。结果表明它相当于一复振幅线性平移不变系统，从而可用相干传递函数描述系统性能，所得相干传递函数表明系统具有低通特性，半峰值带宽△ｋ＝２△λ／λ＾２。由于物体频谱整体平移了１／λ，测量的是纵向结构的高频信息。本文的工作为定量分析光学相干层析对未知结构的测量结果及进一步提高空间分辨率提供了理论     

Hamaker微观连续介质理论的数字密度和Hamaker常数分析

针对Hamaker微观连续介质理论在微观接触力计算中存在的问题,根据Hamaker假设,用连续介质法计算2个原子之间的相互作用力,发现作用力同经典的Lennard-Jones势所反映的作用力不一致.通过分析数字密度,发现数字密度并非是如Hamaker所认为的常数,而是随间距变化的;并得到Hamaker微观连续介质理论仅在间距大于7倍的原子半径时才成立的结论.通过分析Hamaker常数,发现Hamaker常数也随间距变化.     

Basic Study on Imaging Interferometer using Long Gradient-Index Lenses for Optical Coherence Tomography

An imaging interferometer with two long gradient-index (GRIN) lenses and a charge coupled device (CCD) sensor array is proposed and studied for application to an optical coherence tomography system that can observe the subsurface structure of internal organs through a small hole in the body. An image of lines 11 μm wide was obtained using the phase-shifting method and a test pattern as a sample. The lateral resolution obtained was 22 μm. The axial resolution was also measured and found to be 19.4 μm by measuring the coherence function. The dynamic range was about 60 dB, based on the RF spectrum of the beat signal. A sectional image of a 10-yen Japanese coin was measured as a rough surface sample.