Extended focus depth for Fourier domain optical coherence microscopy
OPTICS LETTERS / Vol. 31, No. 16 / August 15, 2006
R. A. Leitgeb, M. Villiger, A. H.
Bachmann, L. Steinmann, and T. Lasser
Laboratoire d’Optique Biomedicale, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Center of Biomedical Engineering and Physics, Medical University of Vienna,
Waehringerstrasse 13,
A-1090 Vienna, Austria
We report on a new detection scheme for Fourier domain optical coherence
microscopy that exhibits high
transverse resolution along an axially extended focal range. Nearly constant
transverse resolution of
1.5 m along a focal range of 200 m is experimentally verified with a maximum
sensitivity of 105 dB. A
broad-bandwidth Ti:sapphire laser allowed for an axial resolution of 3 m in air.
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