Cross-Sectional Imaging of Materials Structure Using PS-OCT

• Authors: M. Strąkowski , J. Pluciński , B. Kosmowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Optical low-coherence tomography is a measurement technique for non-contact and non-destructive investigation of materials inner structure. Nowadays, this method is highly applied in medical treatment especially in dermatology and ophthalmology. During our research we have developed an optical low-coherence tomography system with polarization state analysis for structure examination of a broad range of technical materials. In this paper we present our recent measurements including polarization sensitive analysis. Those measurements were taken for semitransparent and highly scattering materials like polymer layers and polymer optical retarders, anticorrosion protective coatings or abrasive paper. We proved that with the aid of developed polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography system it is possible to investigate birefringence principles of materials as well as to improve visualization contrast of cross-sectional images.

Keywords

EN

42.79.-e; 42.87.-d

Discipline

• 42.87.-d: Optical testing techniques
• 42.79.-e: Optical elements, devices, and systems(for integrated optics, see 42.82.-m; for fiber optics, see 42.81.-i)

• Publisher: Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Physica Polonica A
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 114
• Issue: 6A
• Pages: A-217-A-221

Dates

published

2008-12

Contributors

author

M. Strąkowski

• Department of Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems, Faculty of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

author

J. Pluciński

• Department of Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems, Faculty of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

author

B. Kosmowski

• Department of Optoelectronics and Electronic Systems, Faculty of Electronics Telecommunications and Informatics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-952 Gdańsk, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12693/APhysPolA.114.A-217