title: Spectrometer calibration for spectroscopic Fourier domain optical coherence tomography.
abstract: We propose a simple and robust procedure for Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FdOCT) that allows to linearize the detected FdOCT spectra to wavenumber domain and, at the same time, to determine the wavelength of light for each point of detected spectrum. We show that in this approach it is possible to use any measurable physical quantity that has linear dependency on wavenumber and can be extracted from spectral fringes. The actual values of the measured quantity have no importance for the algorithm and do not need to be known at any stage of the procedure. As example we calibrate a spectral OCT spectrometer using Doppler frequency. The technique of spectral calibration can be in principle adapted to of all kind of Fourier domain OCT devices.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Szkulmowski
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
authors.forename: Szymon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tamborski
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziadzka 5, 87-100 Torun, Poland.
authors.forename: Maciej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wojtkowski
keywords: (110.2970) Image detection systems; (110.4500) Optical coherence tomography; (300.0300) Spectroscopy; (300.6170) Spectra; (300.6190) Spectrometers