Artefact-removal algorithms for Fourier domain Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography
Abstract
Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography (Q-OCT) is a non-classical equivalent of Optical Coherence Tomography and is able to provide a twofold axial resolution increase and immunity to resolution-degrading dispersion. The main drawback of Q-OCT are artefacts which are additional elements that clutter an A-scan and lead to a complete loss of structural information for multilayered objects. Whereas there are successful methods for artefact removal in Time-domain Q-OCT, no such scheme has been devised for Fourier-domain Q-OCT (Fd-Q-OCT), although the latter modality - through joint spectrum detection - outputs a lot of useful information on both the system and the imaged object. Here, we propose two algorithms which process a Fd-Q-OCT's joint spectrum into an artefact-free A-scan. We present the theoretical background of these algorithms and show their performance on computer-generated data. The limitations of both algorithms with regards to the experimental system and the imaged object are discussed.
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@article{arxiv.2104.10655,
title = {Artefact-removal algorithms for Fourier domain Quantum Optical Coherence Tomography},
author = {Sylwia M. Kolenderska and Maciej Szkulmowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.10655},
year = {2021}
}