Noise of supercontinuum sources in spectral domain optical coherence tomography

M Jensen, IB Gonzalo, RD Engelsholm, M Maria… - JOSA B, 2019 - opg.optica.org
In this paper, we investigate the effect of pulse-to-pulse fluctuations of supercontinuum
sources on the noise in spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) images. The …

Supercontinuum sources in optical coherence tomography: A state of the art and the application to scan-free time domain correlation techniques and depth dependant …

L Froehly, J Meteau - Optical Fiber Technology, 2012 - Elsevier
Supercontinuum generation and the development of light sources based on these effects
are discussed. We especially emphasize on the use of such sources for optical coherence …

Shot-noise limited, supercontinuum-based optical coherence tomography

S Rao DS, M Jensen, L Grüner-Nielsen… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
We present the first demonstration of shot-noise limited supercontinuum-based spectral
domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) with an axial resolution of 5.9 μm at a …

Noise characterization of supercontinuum sources for low-coherence interferometry applications

WJ Brown, S Kim, A Wax - JOSA A, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We examine the noise properties of supercontinuum light sources when used in low-
coherence interferometry applications. The first application is a multiple-scattering low …

Proactive spectrometer matching for excess noise suppression in balanced visible light optical coherence tomography (OCT)

AM Kho, VJ Srinivasan - Optics Express, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Supercontinuum sources for visible light spectral domain OCT (SDOCT) are noisy and often
expensive. Balanced detection can reduce excess noise, but is rarely used in SDOCT. Here …

Intensity-interferometric spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with dispersion cancellation

T Shirai, AT Friberg - JOSA A, 2014 - opg.optica.org
We describe a technique for cancelling group-velocity dispersion in spectral-domain (SD)
optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on classical intensity correlations. As a classical …

Phase-noise analysis of swept-source optical coherence tomography systems

Y Ling, Y Gan, X Yao, CP Hendon - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We propose a new model to characterize the phase noise in swept-source optical
coherence tomography (SS-OCT). The new model explicitly incorporates scanning …

Coherent noise compensation in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography

VM Gelikonov, GV Gelikonov, IV Kasatkina… - Optics and …, 2009 - Springer
An efficient technique for the separation of and compensation for coherent noise in spectral
optical coherence tomography with parallel spectrum detection is proposed and validated …

Buffer-averaging super-continuum source based spectral domain optical coherence tomography for high speed imaging

C Chen, W Shi, R Reyes, VXD Yang - Biomedical Optics Express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
In super-continuum (SC) source based spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SC-
SDOCT), the stability of the power spectral density (PSD) has a significant impact on OCT …

Dual-band infrared optical coherence tomography using a single supercontinuum source

I Zorin, P Gattinger, M Brandstetter, B Heise - Optics Express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Recent developments and commercial availability of low-noise and bright infrared (IR)
supercontinuum sources initiated intensive applied research in the last few years. Covering …