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Dispersion Compensation in Optical Coherence Tomography with a Prism in a Rapid-Scanning Optical Delay Line

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We demonstrate the theoretical and experimental results of using a single prism in the rapid-scanning optical delay line of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system for compensating the mismatches of the first- and second-order group delay dispersion (GDD) between the reference and sample arms. The analytical expressions for the first- and second-order GDD are derived based on the typically designed system configuration. Numerical results in varying various parameters are shown. An optimized set of parameters for efficient dispersion compensation in a practical fiber-based OCT system is obtained. The numerical result of the dispersion compensation is demonstrated. Also, the experimental implementation of such a dispersion compensation method is illustrated with the conditions similar to the numerical calculations. The compensation result is quite satisfactory

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  1. Department of Electrical Engineering, Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 1, Roosevelt Road, Section 4, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

    Meng-Tsan Tsai, I-Jen Hsu, Chih-Wei Lu, Yih-Ming Wang, Chia-Wei Sun, Yean-Woei Kiang & C. C. Yang

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Tsai, MT., Hsu, IJ., Lu, CW. et al. Dispersion Compensation in Optical Coherence Tomography with a Prism in a Rapid-Scanning Optical Delay Line. Opt Quant Electron 37, 1199–1212 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-005-4192-7

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