Quantitative single-mode fiber based PS-OCT with single input polarization state using Mueller matrix

Zhenyang Ding; Chia-Pin Liang; Qinggong Tang; Yu Chen

doi:10.1364/BOE.6.001828

Quantitative single-mode fiber based PS-OCT with single input polarization state using Mueller matrix

Biomed Opt Express. 2015 Apr 22;6(5):1828-43. doi: 10.1364/BOE.6.001828. eCollection 2015 May 1.

Authors

Zhenyang Ding¹, Chia-Pin Liang², Qinggong Tang³, Yu Chen³

Affiliations

¹ College of Precision Instrument and Opto-Electronics Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin, 300072, China ; Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA ; These authors contributed equally to this work.
² Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA ; These authors contributed equally to this work.
³ Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA.

Abstract

We present a simple but effective method to quantitatively measure the birefringence of tissue by an all single-mode fiber (SMF) based polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) with single input polarization state. We theoretically verify that our SMF based PS-OCT system can quantify the phase retardance and optic axis orientation after a simple calibration process using a quarter wave plate (QWP). Based on the proposed method, the quantification of the phase retardance and optic axis orientation of a Berek polarization compensator and biological tissues were demonstrated.

Keywords: (170.0110) Imaging systems; (170.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (260.5430) Polarization.

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