We present a 1300 nm Fourier domain mode locked (FDML) laser for optical coherence tomography (OCT) that combines both, a high 1.6 MHz wavelength sweep rate and an ultra-long instantaneous coherence length for rapid volumetric deep field imaging. By reducing the dispersion in the fiber delay line of the FDML laser, the instantaneous coherence length and hence the available imaging range is appr...

Optical heterodyning is a detection scheme that allows the preferential detection of ballistic photons transmitted through a random media, enabling the imaging of absorbing structures within. We introduce a normalized cross-correlation function as a quantitative measure of image quality and employ it to investigate the effect of source coherence length on the ability of optical heterodyning to ...

An analytical expression for the self coherence function of a microcavity and partially coherent source is derived from first principles in terms of the component self coherence functions. Excellent agreement between the model and experimental measurements of two Resonant Cavity LEDs (RCLEDs) is evident. The variation of coherence length as a function of numerical aperture is also described by ...

The twist, rise, slide, shift, tilt and roll between adjoining base pairs in DNA depend on the identity of the bases. The resulting dependence of the double helix conformation on the nucleotide sequence is important for DNA recognition by proteins, packaging and maintenance of genetic material, and other interactions involving DNA. This dependence, however, is obscured by poorly understood vari...

Multireference partial field decomposition (PFD) can be used to generate coherent holograms for near-field acoustical holography measurements. PFD is most successful when the reference array completely senses all independent subsources, but meeting this requirement is not straightforward when the number of subsources and their locations are ambiguous (such as in aeroacoustic sources). A figure ...

Partially coherent Lorentz-Gauss beams can propagate by remaining spatially localized and non-divergent. The Gaussian beams and after a bit application of Lorentz function, the Lorentz-Gauss beams are a better tool for optical communication. Analytical formulae for spatial complex degree of coherence are derived. In this paper mathematical model of Lorentz-Gauss beams is derived in terms of ABC...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the influence of axial length on spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) thickness measurements in patients with subretinal visual implants. METHODS Data from eight emmetropic pseudophakic eyes of eight patients with subretinal visual implants were analyzed retrospectively. These patients participated in the monocentric part of a m...