Quantitative Optical Coherence Tomography for characterization of microscopic structures with varying refractive index

Author

Rasakanthan, Jana ; Baregheh, Mandana ; Dubov, Mykhaylo ; Mezentsev, Vladimir ; Smith, Graham ; Sugden, Kate ; Woolliams, Peter D. ; Tomlins, Peter H.

Author_Institution

Photonic Res. Group, Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2011

fDate

22-26 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

In this paper we have done back to back comparison of quantitive phase and refractive index from a microscopic image of waveguide previously obtained by Allsop et al. Paper also shows microscopic image of the first 3 waveguides from the sample. Tomlins et al. have demonstrated use of femtosecond fabricated artefacts as OCT calibration samples. Here we present the use of femtosecond waveguides, inscribed with optimized parameters, to test and calibrate the sensitivity of the OCT systems.

Keywords

calibration; light coherence; optical fabrication; optical images; optical microscopy; optical tomography; optical waveguides; refractive index; femtosecond waveguides; microscopic image; microscopic structures; quantitative optical coherence tomography; quantitive phase; refractive index; Coherence; Optical imaging; Optical variables control; Optical waveguides; Refractive index; Tomography; Ultrafast optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/EQEC), 2011 Conference on and 12th European Quantum Electronics Conference

Conference_Location

Munich

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0533-5

Electronic_ISBN

Pending

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE.2011.5943065

Filename

5943065