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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2017
Thorlabs, Inc., Newton, NJ (US);
Praevium Research, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Alex Ezra Cable, Newton, NJ (US);
Vijaysekhar Jayaraman, Goleta, CA (US);
James Jiang, Hackettstown, NJ (US);
Benjamin Potsaid, Cambridge, MA (US);
THORLABS, INC., Newton, NJ (US);
PRAEVIUM RESEARCH, INC., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Abstract
An agile optical imaging system for optical coherence tomography imaging using a tunable source comprising a wavelength tunable VCL laser is disclosed. The tunable source has long coherence length and is capable of high sweep repetition rate, as well as changing the sweep trajectory, sweep speed, sweep repetition rate, sweep linearity, and emission wavelength range on the fly to support multiple modes of OCT imaging. The imaging system also offers new enhanced dynamic range imaging capability for accommodating bright reflections. Multiscale imaging capability allows measurement over orders of magnitude dimensional scales. The imaging system and methods for generating the waveforms to drive the tunable laser in flexible and agile modes of operation are also described.