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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 03, 2006
Huikai Xie, Gainesville, FL (US);
Huikai Xie, Gainesville, FL (US);
University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc., Gainesville, FL (US);
Abstract
A single fiber full-field optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging probe () includes a hollow tube (), and a single fiber () disposed within the tube for transmitting light received from a broadband light source to a beam splitter () in the tube optically coupled to the single fiber (). The beam splitter () splits the light into a first and a second optical beam, wherein the first beam is optically coupled to a reference arm including a MEMS reference micromirror () which provides axial scanning and the second beam is optically coupled to a sample arm for probing a sample to be imaged. Both the reference arm and the sample ami are disposed in the tube. A photodetector array () is preferably disposed inside the tube () optically coupled to the beam splitter (). The photodetector array () receives a reflected beam from the MEMS reference micromirror () and a scattered beam from the sample to form an image of the sample.