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High-resolution optical imaging methods, such as confocal microscopy and full-field optical coherence tomography, capture flat optical sections of the sample. If the sample is curved, the optical field sections through several sample layers…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Viacheslav Mazlin , Kristina Irsch , Michel Paques , Mathias Fink , Albert Claude Boccara

This short textbook was written for someone who newly start studying, doing research, or development about optical coherence tomography (OCT) or using OCT. The first chapter summarizes the concept and the history of OCT. In the second…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-12-09 Yoshiaki Yasuno

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography is a well-established in vivo imaging technique to assess the overall vascular morphology of tissues and is an emerging field of research for the assessment of blood flow dynamics and…

Medical Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Cerine Lal , Hrebesh M Subhash , Sergey Alexandrov , Martin J Leahy

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive depth resolved optical imaging modality, that enables high resolution, cross-sectional imaging in biological tissues and materials at clinically relevant depths. Though OCT offers high…

Medical Physics · Physics 2020-05-29 Cerine Lal , Sergey Alexandrov , Sweta Rani , Yi Zhou , Thomas Ritter , Martin Leahy

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has seen widespread success as an in vivo clinical diagnostic 3D imaging modality, impacting areas including ophthalmology, cardiology, and gastroenterology. Despite its many advantages, such as high…

A fundamental task in photonics is to characterise an unknown optical process, defined by properties such as birefringence, spectral response, thickness and flatness. Amongst many ways to achieve this, single-photon probes can be used in a…

Currently, diagnosis of skin diseases is based primarily on visual pattern recognition skills and expertise of the physician observing the lesion. Even though dermatologists are trained to recognize patterns of morphology, it is still a…

Quantum tomography is a method to experimentally extract all that is observable about a quantum mechanical system. We introduce quantum tomography to collider physics with the illustration of the angular distribution of lepton pairs. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 John C. Martens , John P. Ralston , J. D. Tapia Takaki

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high-resolution three-dimensional imaging technique that enables non-destructive measurements of surface and subsurface microstructures. Recent developments of OCT operating in the mid-infrared (MIR)…

Optics · Physics 2020-07-15 Ivan Zorin , Rong Su , Bettina Heise , Bernhard Lendl , Markus Brandstetter

Entanglement is an extraordinary feature of quantum mechanics. Sources of entangled optical photons were essential to test the foundations of quantum physics through violations of Bell's inequalities. More recently, entangled many-body…

Acousto-Optical Coherence Tomography (AOCT) is a variant of Acousto Optic Imaging (also called Ultrasound modulated Optical Tomography) that makes possible to get resolution along the ultrasound propagation axis $z$. We present here new…

Optics · Physics 2013-02-07 Max Lesaffre , Salma Farahi , François Ramaz , Michel Gross

We show that quantum detector tomography can be applied to the human visual system to explore human perception of photon number states. In detector tomography, instead of using very hard to produce photon number states, the response of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-20 T. H. A. van der Reep , D. Molenaar , W. Löffler , Y. Pinto

Linear optics quantum computing (LOQC) is a leading candidate for the implementation of large scale quantum computers. Here quantum information is encoded into the quantum states of light and computation proceeds via a linear optics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Peter P. Rohde

In recent experiments on coupled quantum dot (QD) optical cavity systems a pronounced interaction between the dot and the cavity has been observed even for detunings of many cavity linewidths. This interaction has been attributed to an…

Entanglement is a key resource in quantum technologies, enhancing precision and resolution in imaging and sensing by leveraging the cross-correlation of photon pairs. This correlation enables precise time synchronization of photons reaching…

Optical absorption is a primary, label-defining contrast across biology, pathology, and materials science, yet three-dimensional quantitative absorption imaging has remained largely inaccessible to the brightfield microscopes used in…

This paper reports on advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) for application in dermatology. Full-field OCT is a particular approach of OCT based on white-light interference microscopy. FF-OCT produces en face tomographic images by…

Medical Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Olivier Levecq , Arthur Davis , Hicham Azimani , David Siret , Jean-Luc Perrot , Arnaud Dubois

We present a general theory of optical coherence tomography (OCT), which synthesizes the fundamental concepts and implementations of OCT under a common 3D k-space framework. At the heart of this analysis is the Fourier diffraction theorem,…

Quantitative tissue information, like the light scattering properties, is considered as a key player in the detection of cancerous cells in medical diagnosis. A promising method to obtain these data is optical coherence tomography (OCT). In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Leopold Veselka , Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Lisa Krainz , Wolfgang Drexler