title: Nonparaxial vector-field modeling of optical coherence tomography and interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy.
abstract: A large-aperture, electromagnetic model for coherent microscopy is presented and the inverse scattering problem is solved. Approximations to the model are developed for near-focus and far-from-focus operations. These approximations result in an image-reconstruction algorithm consistent with interferometric synthetic aperture microscopy (ISAM): this validates ISAM processing of optical-coherence-tomography and optical-coherence-microscopy data in a vectorial setting. Numerical simulations confirm that diffraction-limited resolution can be achieved outside the focal plane and that depth of focus is limited only by measurement noise and/or detector dynamic range. Furthermore, the model presented is suitable for the quantitative study of polarimetric coherent microscopy systems operating within the first Born approximation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. bryn@uiuc.edu
authors.forename: Brynmor J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.forename: Simon C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Schlachter
authors.forename: Daniel L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Marks
authors.forename: Tyler S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Ralston
authors.forename: Stephen A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Boppart
authors.forename: P Scott
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Carney
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D055590:Electromagnetic Phenomena; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008857:Microscopy, Interference; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence