title: Suppression of nonlinear frequency sweep in an optical frequency-domain reflectometer by use of Hilbert transformation.
abstract: A compensation technique for reducing the effect of nonlinear optical frequency swept in an optical frequency-domain reflectometer (OFDR) is proposed. The instantaneous sweep optical frequency of an OFDR laser source is directly obtained by analysis of the interference signal from an auxiliary interferometer with a Hilbert transformation. Beating OFDR data from a main interferometer are regenerated with respect to the measured instantaneous optical frequency. We show that this technique dramatically improves the spatial resolution of a conventional OFDR and can be applied to an optical frequency-domain medical imaging system to eliminate the problem of a nonlinear frequency sweep effect.
authors.affiliation: Department of Information and Communications, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 1 Oryong-Dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju 500-712, South Korea. helios97@kjist.ac.kr
authors.forename: Tae-Jung
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Ji Yong
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Dug Young
authors.initials: DY
authors.lastname: Kim