Patent10.26153/TSW/3948
Fiber-based optical low coherence tomography
Digant P. Dave,Thomas E. Milner,Taner Akkin +2 more
- 06 Oct 2003
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TL;DR: In this article, a polarization-maintaining fiber-based reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement is presented, where linear bireringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan.
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Abstract: Generally, and in one form of the present invention, is a polarization-maintaining fiber-based polarization sensitive optical low coherence reflectometer for depth resolved birefringence measurement. With the present invention, linear birefringence of a sample may be measured from data recorded in a single A-Scan. In addition, the present invention provides for the simultaneous measurement of retardation and orientation of birefringent axes, wherein measured retardation is insensitive to sample rotation in the plane perpendicular to ranging.
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