Optical Coherence Tomography

Ibsen Photonics spectrometer and gratings technology is ideally suited for Spectral Domain-Optical Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) systems due to the following distinct benefits:

• High efficiency (optical throughput) for both polarizations due to high efficiency transmission gratings
• Resolution down to 50 picomenter
• Integration with almost any CCD detector and Camera type
• Robustness and thermal stability
• Single-mode fiber input

Products

Ibsen offers a number of OEM spectrometer platforms/gratings at 850 nm, 1060nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm that are well suited for integration into your OCT system.

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What is SD-OCT?

An OCT system uses low coherence interference to measure reflectance versus distance into a material. Light from a semi-broadband source (like a Superluminescnet LED) is split into a reference arm (with a fixed mirror) and a sample arm (towards the material to be scanned). The reflected beams from the reference and sample arms are recombined and input to a spectrometer that records the interference pattern vs. wavelength. The intensity of fringes in the interference pattern is directly related to the depth into the sample material through the Fourier Transform.