To improve the image acquisition rate and sensitivity of optical coherence tomography(OCT)technique
a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography(SD-OCT)system based on a spectral interferometric is constructed
where a broadband light source is chosen as the illumination source and a Michelson fiber interferometer is employed to generate interference pattern of object collected by a spectrometer. The object inner structure is obtained from the interference pattern by a Fourier transform. It is theoretically stated and experimentally verified that SD-OCT system outperforms the conventional OCT system in acquisition rate and sensitivity. The acquisition rate gets 16 000 axial scans per second and 40 times the conventional OCT; the sensitivity is enhanced by 20-30 dB. As a result
the SD-OCT system enables to realize near real time three dimensional imaging reconstructions of internal structure of engineering and biological materials.
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