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Infrared (IR) spectroscopy is an indispensable tool for many practical applications including material analysis and sensing. Existing IR spectroscopy techniques face challenges related to the inferior performance and the high cost of…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-13 Anna Paterova , Shaun Lung , Dmitry Kalashnikov , Leonid Krivitsky

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a label-free, non-invasive 3D imaging tool widely used in both biological research and clinical diagnosis. Current OCT modalities can only visualize specimen tomography without chemical information.…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a powerful and noninvasive method for retinal imaging. In this paper, we introduce a fast segmentation method based on a new variant of spectral graph theory named diffusion maps. The research is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-10-09 Raheleh Kafieh , Hossein Rabbani , Michael D. Abramoff , Milan Sonka

We propose and experimentally demonstrate temporally low-coherent optical diffraction tomography (ODT) based on angle-scanning Mach-Zehnder interferometry. Using a digital micromirror device based on diffractive tilting, we successfully…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-17 KyeoReh Lee , Seungwoo Shin , Zahid Yaqoob , Peter T. C. So , YongKeun Park

This paper aims to evaluate mid-infrared (MIR) Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) systems as a tool to penetrate different materials and detect sub-surface irregularities. This is useful for monitoring production processes, allowing…

Spectral measurements in the infrared (IR) optical range provide unique fingerprints of materials which are useful for material analysis, environmental sensing, and health diagnostics. Current IR spectroscopy techniques require the use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Anna V. Paterova , Sergei P. Kulik , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a widely used imaging technique in the micrometer regime, which gained accelerating interest in medical imaging in the last twenty years. In up-to-date OCT literature [5,6] certain simplifying…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Leopold Veselka , Lisa Krainz , Leonidas Mindrinos , Wolfgang Drexler , Peter Elbau

Quantum-optical coherence tomography (QOCT) is an optical sectioning modality based on the quantum interference of photon pairs, obtained from a spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) source. The promise of QOCT derives from two…

In this chapter a general mathematical model of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is presented on the basis of the electromagnetic theory. OCT produces high resolution images of the inner structure of biological tissues. Images are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-19 Peter Elbau , Leonidas Mindrinos , Otmar Scherzer

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, micrometer-scale imaging modality that has become a clinical standard in ophthalmology. By raster-scanning the retina, sequential cross-sectional image slices are acquired to generate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-20 Stefan Ploner , Jungeun Won , Julia Schottenhamml , Jessica Girgis , Kenneth Lam , Nadia Waheed , James Fujimoto , Andreas Maier

We report on a technically simple approach to achieve high-resolution and high-sensitivity Fourier-domain OCT imaging in the mid-infrared range. The proposed OCT system employs an InF3 supercontinuum source. A specially designed dispersive…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-15 Ivan Zorin , Paul Gattinger , Andrii Prylepa , Bettina Heise

The effect known as ``induced coherence without induced emission'' has spawned a field dedicated to imaging with undetected photons (IUP), where photons from two distinct photon-pair sources interfere if their outputs are made…

Owing to its capacity for unique (bio)-chemical specificity, microscopy withmid-IR illumination holds tremendous promise for a wide range of biomedical and industrial applications. The primary limitation, however, remains detection; with…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yang Jianlong , Zhang Haoran , Liu Chang , Gu Chengfu

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven to be a powerful technique for studying tissue morphology in ophthalmology, cardiology, and endomicroscopy. Its performance is limited by the fundamental trade-off between the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-27 Keisuke Goda , Daniel R. Solli , Bahram Jalali

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…

Linear optical networks are fundamental to the advancement of quantum technologies, including quantum computing, communication, and sensing. The accurate characterization of these networks, described by unitary matrices, is crucial to their…

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent non-invasive imaging method which provides high resolution volumetric visualization of retina. However, its inherent defect, the speckle noise, can seriously deteriorate the tissue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Dewei Hu , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Optical-coherence tomography (OCT) is a technique that employs light in order to measure the internal structure of semi-transparent, e.g. biological, samples. It is based on the interference pattern of low-coherence light. Quantum-OCT…

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…