title: Optical-fiber-based Mueller optical coherence tomography.
abstract: An optical-fiber-based multichannel polarization-sensitive Mueller optical coherence tomography (OCT) system was built to acquire the Jones or Mueller matrix of a scattering medium, such as biological tissue. For the first time to our knowledge, fiber-based polarization-sensitive OCT was dynamically calibrated to eliminate the polarization distortion caused by the single-mode optical fiber in the sample arm, thereby overcoming a key technical impediment to the application of optical fibers in this technology. The round-trip Jones matrix of the sampling fiber was acquired from the reflecting surface of the sample for each depth scan (A scan) with our OCT system. A new rigorous algorithm was then used to retrieve the calibrated polarization properties of the sample. This algorithm was validated with experimental data. The skin of a rat was imaged with this fiber-based system.
authors.affiliation: Optical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3120 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843-3120, USA.
authors.forename: Shuliang
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jiao
authors.forename: Wurong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stoica
authors.forename: Lihong V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D055100:Optical Fibers; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D051381:Rats; D012867:Skin / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D014054:Tomography