Experimental realization of phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography
Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 7, pp. 1001-1003 (2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.001001
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Abstract
We demonstrate phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography (PC-OCT) using a classical source of phase-sensitive cross-correlated beams to achieve measurement improvements shared by quantum OCT (Q-OCT): a factor-of-2 enhancement in axial resolution and even-order dispersion cancellation. Compared with coincidence counting used in Q-OCT, PC-OCT employs standard photodetection that results in much faster data acquisitions. This work belongs to a new class of classical techniques inspired by quantum methods that have advantages once thought to be exclusively quantum mechanical.
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OCIS Codes
(110.4500) Imaging systems : Optical coherence tomography
(190.4410) Nonlinear optics : Nonlinear optics, parametric processes
(190.5040) Nonlinear optics : Phase conjugation
(270.0270) Quantum optics : Quantum optics
(180.1655) Microscopy : Coherence tomography
ToC Category:
Nonlinear Optics
History
Original Manuscript: November 10, 2009
Revised Manuscript: January 7, 2010
Manuscript Accepted: February 5, 2010
Published: March 26, 2010
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Vol. 5, Iss. 8 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics
Citation
Julien Le Gouët, Dheera Venkatraman, Franco N. C. Wong, and Jeffrey H. Shapiro, "Experimental realization of phase-conjugate optical coherence tomography," Opt. Lett. 35, 1001-1003 (2010)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-35-7-1001
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