title: High-speed gated surface profiling with closed-loop optical coherence topography.
abstract: The here presented work describes a surface profiling technique, for which the term closed-loop optical coherence topography (CLOCT) was proposed [1]. This technique is a scanning beam, servo-locked variation of low-coherence interferometry. It allows for the sub-wavelength-resolution tracking of a weakly scattering macroscopic-scale surface with the absence of significant real-time computational overhead and is thus particularly well suited to real-time surface profiling of in vivo, macroscopic biological surfaces.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Information Processing Technology (ITIV), University of Karlsruhe, Germany. eix@itiv.uni-karlsruhe.de
authors.forename: Ilos
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Eix
authors.forename: Andrei V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Zvyagin
authors.forename: David D
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Sampson
mesh_terms: D019781:Corneal Topography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007368:Interferometry / Q000295:instrumentation*; D018613:Microscopy, Confocal / Q000295:instrumentation*