Optical imaging of objects in turbid medium with ultrashort pulses

Chih-Yu Wang; Chia-Wei Sun; Chih Chung Yang; Yean-Woei Kiang; Chii-Wann Lin

doi:10.1117/12.390529

4 July 2000 Optical imaging of objects in turbid medium with ultrashort pulses

Chih-Yu Wang, Chia-Wei Sun, Chih Chung Yang, Yean-Woei Kiang, Chii-Wann Lin

Proceedings Volume 4082, Optical Sensing, Imaging, and Manipulation for Biological and Biomedical Applications; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390529
Event: Photonics Taiwan, 2000, Taipei, Taiwan

Abstract

Photons are seriously scattered when entering turbid medium; this the images of objects hidden in turbid medium can not be obtained by just collecting the transmitted photons. Early-arriving photons, which are also called ballistic or snake protons, are much less scattered when passing through turbid medium, and contains more image information than the late-arriving ones. Therefore, objects embedded in turbid medium can be imaged by gathering the ballistic and snake photons. In the present research we try to recover images of objects in turbid medium by simultaneously time-gate and polarization-gate to obtain the snake photons. An Argon-pumped Ti-Sapphire laser with 100fs pulses was employed as a light source. A streak camera with a 2ps temporal resolution was used to extract the ballistic and snake photons. Two pieces of lean swine meat, measured 4mmX3mm and 5xxX4mm, respectively, were placed in a 10cmX10cmX3cm acrylic tank, which was full of diluted milk. A pair of polarizer and an analyzer was used to extract the light that keeps polarization unchanged. The combination of time gating and polarization gating resulted in good images of objects hidden in turbid medium.

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Chih-Yu Wang, Chia-Wei Sun, Chih Chung Yang, Yean-Woei Kiang, and Chii-Wann Lin "Optical imaging of objects in turbid medium with ultrashort pulses", Proc. SPIE 4082, Optical Sensing, Imaging, and Manipulation for Biological and Biomedical Applications, (4 July 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.390529

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