Niemeier Ryan C, Simmons Zach J, Rogers Jeremy D
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1550 Engineering Drive, Madison, WI 53706.
McPherson Eye Research Institute, 9433 Wisconsin Institutes for Medical Research (WIMR), 1111 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705.
Appl Opt. 2020 Jun 20;59(18):5521-5526. doi: 10.1364/ao.393141. Epub 2020 Jun 16.
Supercontinuum (SC) sources offer high illumination power from a single mode fiber with large spectral bandwidth including the visible spectrum, a growing application area for Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). However, SC spectra suffer from pulse-to-pulse variations, increasing noise in the resulting images. By simultaneously collecting a normalization spectrum, OCT image noise can be reduced by more than half (7 dB) for single pulses without any pulse averaging using only simple optical components.
超连续谱(SC)光源可从具有大光谱带宽(包括可见光谱)的单模光纤提供高照明功率,这是光学相干断层扫描(OCT)不断发展的应用领域。然而,SC光谱存在脉冲间变化,会增加所得图像中的噪声。通过同时采集归一化光谱,仅使用简单光学元件,无需任何脉冲平均,对于单个脉冲,OCT图像噪声可降低一半以上(7分贝)。