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Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography using only Linearly Polarized Light

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This work presents polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT) using only linearly polarized light. The main characteristics of linear PS-OCT include the following. (1) In a turbid medium with linear birefringence, the degree of polarization (DOP) of backscattered linearly incident polarized light does not change significantly with the increase of birefringence value; (2) the phase retardation of the sample can be obtained from only the phase difference between the orthogonal polarization heterodyne signals, so a common phase noise rejection mode is introduced. These advantages may not only support the immunity of background phase noise and laser frequency noise, but also increase the sensitivity of phase retardation measurements; (3) the dynamic range of phase retardation in this system is between 0° and 180°

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  1. Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Wen-Chuan Kuo & Gwo-Jen Jan

  2. Institute of Electrto-optical Science and Technology, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 116, Taiwan

    Wen-Chuan Kuo

  3. Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, 112, Taiwan

    Huan-Jang Huang & Chien Chou

  4. Department of Electronic Engineering, Ming-Chuan University, Taoyuan, 333, Taiwan

    Chih-Ming Lai

  5. Institute of Biophotonics Engineering, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, 112, Taiwan

    Chien Chou

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Kuo, WC., Huang, HJ., Lai, CM. et al. Polarization-Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography using only Linearly Polarized Light. Opt Quant Electron 37, 1213–1223 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11082-005-4193-6

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