Stroboscopic ultrahigh-resolution full-field optical coherence tomography.
We present a new technique that produces en face tomographic images with a 10-micros acquisition time per image. The setup consists of an interference microscope with stroboscopic illumination provided by a xenon arc flash lamp (10-micros flashes at 15 Hz). The tomographic images are obtained from two phase-opposed interferometric images recorded simultaneously by two synchronized CCD cameras. Transverse resolution better than 1.0 microm is achieved by use of high-numerical-aperture microscope objectives. The short coherence length of the source yields an axial resolution of 0.9 microm. 3 x 3 pixel binning leads to a detection sensitivity of 71 dB. Our system is suitable for various applications, particularly in biology for in vivo cellular-level imaging.
Laboratoire d'Optique Physique, Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unité Propre de Recherche A0005, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France.
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D000818:Animals; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D005123:Eye / Q000166:cytology*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008857:Microscopy, Interference / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D049489:Stroboscopy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D014982:Xenopus laevis