High-resolution spectrometer: solution to the axial resolution and ranging depth trade-off of SD-OCT

Tahereh Marvdashti; Hee Yoon Lee; Audrey K. Ellerbee

doi:10.1117/12.2003865

22 March 2013 High-resolution spectrometer: solution to the axial resolution and ranging depth trade-off of SD-OCT

Tahereh Marvdashti, Hee Yoon Lee, Audrey K. Ellerbee

Proceedings Volume 8572, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems XI; 85720I (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2003865
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2013, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate a cross-dispersed spectrometer for Spectral Domain Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT). The resolution of a conventional SD-OCT spectrometer is limited by the available sizes of the linear array detectors. The adverse consequences of this finite resolution is a trade-off between achieving practical field of view (i.e. ranging depth) and maintaining high axial resolution. Inspired by spectrometer designs for astronomy, we take advantage of very high pixel-density 2D CCD arrays to map a single-shot 2D spectrum to an OCT A-scan. The basic system can be implemented using a high-resolution Echelle grating crossed with a prism in a direction orthogonal to the dispersion axis. In this geometry, the interferometric light returning from the OCT system is dispersed in two dimensions; the resulting spectrum can achieve more pixels than a traditional OCT spectrometer (which increases the ranging depth) and maintains impressive axial resolution because of the broad bandwidth of the detected OCT light. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first demonstration of OCT data using an Echelle-based cross-dispersed spectrometer. Potential applications for such a system include high-resolution imaging of the retina or the anterior segment of the eye over extended imaging depths and small animal imaging.

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Tahereh Marvdashti, Hee Yoon Lee, and Audrey K. Ellerbee "High-resolution spectrometer: solution to the axial resolution and ranging depth trade-off of SD-OCT", Proc. SPIE 8572, Advanced Biomedical and Clinical Diagnostic Systems XI, 85720I (22 March 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2003865

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