Fiber-based optical low coherence tomography
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Date
2007-02-13
Authors
Thomas E. Milner
Digant P. Dave
Taner Akkin
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United States Patent and Trademark Office
Abstract
Generally, and in one form of the present invention, is a polarization-maintaining fiber-based polarization sensitive optical low coherence reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement. With the present invention, linear birefringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan. In addition, the present invention provides for the simultaneous measurement of retardation and orientation of birefringent axes, wherein measured retardation is insensitive to sample rotation in the plane perpendicular to ranging.