Optical coherence tomography based on intensity correlations of quasi-thermal light

We show theoretically that the longitudinal resolution of conventional optical coherence tomography can be improved by a factor of radic2 when a two-photon (as opposed to a single-photon) sensitive detector is used, and we present preliminary supporting results.

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Main Authors: Zerom, Petros (Author), Piredda, Giovanni (Author), Boyd, Robert W. (Author), Shapiro, Jeffrey H. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2012-10-12T17:49:59Z.
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