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Swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) has high sensitivity and signalnoise ratio compare with time-domain optical coherence tomography and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. Therefore, SS-OCT is the form of Fourier domain optical coherence tomography predominantly used in experimental research and biomedical image. However, polygon tunable laser-based SS-OCT suffers sweep range fluctuation and spectral misplacement. Under certain circumstances, in the current resampling methods cross-correlation is widely used to align spectrum misplacement, and truncate A-lines in order to ensure the consistency of frequency-scanning range, which, however, degrades the image SNR and resolution. We use the Mach-Zehnder interference (MZI) signal to quantify and analyze this problem in two typical polygon tunable lasers. The periodical change of sweep range and spectrum misplacement show the instability derived from polygon mirror. The parallelism among unwrapped phase curves indicates that polygon tunable laser output spectra have consistent wavelength distributions, and thus it is suited to implement cross-correlation between MZI signals in time domain, and an unwrapped phase curve can represent the wavelength distribution of all A-lines.According to the above conclusions, we demonstrate a resampling method in which the zero-padding interpolation and cross-correlation are used to align A-lines in time domain and eliminate the residual phase noise caused by integer shift. Then the unwrapped phase curve that has a largest sweep range is used to resample all the aligned A-lines, and the interference signals can be fully utilized. The experiments for signal truncation and Pomelo fruit flesh indicate that the proposed method can improve image SNR but does not make the intensity image dislocated. The phase noise (3.9 mrad for a 49 dB SNR) from static mirror is close to theory limit after resampling, thus showing good phase stability and resampling precision. The proposed resampling method also needs less computational work than one-to-one resampling method because it only fits unwrapped phase curve and calculates interpolation coefficient once.
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Keywords:
- polygon tunable laser /
- sweep range /
- resampling method /
- signal utilization
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[2] You J W, Chen T C, Mujat M, Park B H, de Boer J F 2006 Opt. Express 14 6739
[3] Chen M H, Ding Z H, Wang C, Song C L 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 068703 (in Chinese) [陈明惠, 丁志华, 王成, 宋成利 2013 62 068703]
[4] Yun S H, Boudoux C, Tearney G J, Bouma B E 2003 Opt. Lett. 28 1981
[5] Huo T, Zhang J, Zheng J, Chen T, Wang C, Zhang N, Liao W, Zhang X, Xue P 2014 Opt. Lett. 39 247
[6] Wang P H, Zhang J, Liu G J, Chen Z P 2011 SPIE BiOS. International Society for Optics and Photonics San Francisco, USA, January 22, 2011 p78892Q
[7] Pan C, Guo L, Shen Y, Yan X G, Ding Z H, Li P 2016 Acta Phys. Sin. 65 014201 (in Chinese) [潘聪, 郭立, 沈毅, 严雪过, 丁志华, 李鹏 2016 65 014201]
[8] Liu G J, Tan O, Gao S S, Pechauer A D, Lee B, Lu C D, Fujimoto J G, Huang D 2015 Opt. Express 23 9824
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[14] Vakoc B J, Yun S H, de Boer J F, Tearney G J, Bouma B E 2005 Opt. Express 13 5483
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