Second harmonic optical coherence tomography
Optics
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
Second harmonic optical coherence tomography, which uses coherence gating of second-order nonlinear optical response of biological tissues for imaging, is described and demonstrated. Femtosecond laser pulses were used to excite second harmonic waves from collagen harvested from rat tail tendon and a reference nonlinear crystal. Second harmonic interference fringe signals were detected and used for image construction. Because of the strong dependence of second harmonic generation on molecular and tissue structures, this technique offers contrast and resolution enhancement to conventional optical coherence tomography.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0402060,
title = {Second harmonic optical coherence tomography},
author = {Yi Jiang and Ivan Tomov and Yimin Wang and Zhongping Chen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0402060},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
3 pages, 5 figures. Submitted on November 8, 2003, this paper has recently been accepted by Optics Letters