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Optics and interferometry with matter waves is the art of coherently manipulating the translational motion of particles like neutrons, atoms and molecules. Coherent atom optics is an extension of techniques that were developed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-21 J. -F. Schaff , T. Langen , J. Schmiedmayer

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent imaging technique for retina. However, it is affected by multiplicative speckle noise that can degrade the visibility of essential anatomical structures, including blood vessels and tissue…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-12 Dewei Hu , Joseph D. Malone , Yigit Atay , Yuankai K. Tao , Ipek Oguz

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT), initially described in the seminal paper of Emil Wolf [Opt. Comm., 1(4), 153-156 (1969)], has received renewed attention recently. The vast majority of ODT experiments reported to date have been 3D…

The rigorous resource framework of quantum coherence has been set up recently and excited a wide variety of interests. Here we show that a quantum cavity optomechanical system, as an emerging platform, can behave with a certain value of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Qiang Zheng , Jianwei Xu , Yao Yao , Yong Li

Retinal Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), a noninvasive cross-sectional scan of the eye with qualitative 3D visualization of the retinal anatomy is use to study the retinal structure and the presence of pathogens. The advent of the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-28 Nchongmaje Ndipenoch , Alina Miron , Zidong Wang , Yongmin Li

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) can non-invasively image the eye's circulatory system. In order to reliably characterize the retinal vasculature, there is a need to automatically extract quantitative metrics from these…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-25 Martin J. Menten , Johannes C. Paetzold , Alina Dima , Bjoern H. Menze , Benjamin Knier , Daniel Rueckert

Whole-eye optical coherence tomography (WEOCT) has emerged as a transformative imaging modality capable of simultaneously capturing the anterior and posterior segments of the human eye. WEOCT enables comprehensive ocular biometry, which is…

Optical coherence tomography has become an important imaging technology in cardiology and ophthalmology, with other applications under investigations. Major advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging are likely to occur through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-10 Mark E. Brezinski

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (SLO) of the eye has become essential to ophthalmology and the emerging field of oculomics, thus requiring a need for transparent, reproducible, and rapid analysis of this…

Traditional full-field optical coherence tomography (FF-OCT) is effective for rapid cross-sectional imaging but often suffers from incoherent signals due to imbalanced light intensities between the sample and reference arms. While the…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-17 Youlong Fan , Qingye Hu , Zhongping Wang , Zengming Zhang , Xiantao Wei

A polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography system based on heterodyning and filtering techniques is built to perform Stokesmetric imaging of different layers of depths in a porcine tendon sample. The complete 4\times4…

Optics · Physics 2010-04-09 Xue Liu , Shih C. Tseng , M. S. Shahriar

The distinction between malignant and benign tumors is essential to the treatment of cancer. The tissue's elasticity can be used as an indicator for the required tissue characterization. Optical coherence elastography (OCE) probes have been…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-21 Robin Mieling , Johanna Sprenger , Sarah Latus , Lennart Bargsten , Alexander Schlaefer

Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a novel noninvasive imaging modality for visualization of retinal blood flow in the human retina. Using specific OCTA imaging biomarkers for the identification of pathologies, automated…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-09 Anna Breger , Felix Goldbach , Bianca S. Gerendas , Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth , Martin Ehler

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a prevalent, interferometric, high-resolution imaging method with broad biomedical applications. Nonetheless, OCT images suffer from an artifact, called speckle which degrades the image quality. Digital…

Multiple light scattering in tissue limits the penetration of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging. Here, we present in-vivo OCT imaging of a live mouse using wavefront shaping to enhance the penetration depth. A digital micro-mirror…

Spatial resolution in optical microscopy has traditionally been treated as a fixed parameter of the optical system. Here, we present an approach to enhance transverse resolution in beam-scanned optical coherence tomography (OCT) beyond its…

Optics · Physics 2021-10-22 Nichaluk Leartprapun , Steven G. Adie

We demonstrate optical coherence tomography based on an SU(1,1) nonlinear interferometer with high-gain parametric down-conversion. For imaging and sensing applications, this scheme promises to outperform previous experiments working at low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-31 Gerard J. Machado , Gaetano Frascella , Juan P. Torres , Maria V. Chekhova

Speckle is an intrinsic pattern in optical coherence tomography (OCT) that obscures fine image features and degrades effective resolution. In this study, we propose a numerical speckle reduction method based on the dispersed scatterer model…

Optical diffraction tomography (ODT) has emerged as an important label-free tool in biomedicine to measure the three-dimensional (3D) structure of a biological sample. In this paper, we describe ODT using second-harmonic generation (SHG)…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-21 Amirhossein Saba , Carlo Gigli , Ye Pu , Demetri Psaltis