A PSF width independent of aberrations in spatially incoherent interferometry (Conference Presentation)

Peng Xiao; Mathias Fink; A. Claude Boccara

doi:10.1117/12.2250011

24 April 2017 A PSF width independent of aberrations in spatially incoherent interferometry (Conference Presentation)

Peng Xiao, Mathias Fink, A. Claude Boccara

Proceedings Volume 10073, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems III; 1007315 (2017) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250011
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2017, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Optical imaging usually suffers from aberrations that are induced by various structures when imaging biological samples. Usually aberrations degrade the imaging system performances by broadening the point spread function (PSF). Unexpectedly we show that in spatially incoherent interferometry like full-filed optical coherence tomography (FFOCT), the system PSF width is almost insensitive to aberrations. Instead of considering the PSF of a classical imaging system such as a microscope, we specifically pay attention to the system PSF of interferometric imaging systems for which an undistorted wavefront from a reference beam interferes with the distorted wavefront of the object beam. By comparing the cases of scanning OCT with spatially coherent illumination, wide-field OCT with spatially coherent illumination and FFOCT with spatially incoherent illumination, we found that in FFOCT with spatially incoherent illumination the system PSF width is almost independent of the aberrations and only its amplitude varies. This is demonstrated by theoretical analysis as well as numerical calculations for different aberrations, and confirmed by experiments with a FFOCT system. It is the first time to the best of our knowledge that such specific merit of incoherent illumination in FFOCT has been demonstrated. Based on this, the signal level is used as metric in our adaptive optics FFOCT system for retinal imaging. Only the main aberrations (defocus and astigmatism) that are dominating in eye are corrected to improve the signal to noise ratio and the high order aberrations are skipped. This would increase the correction speed thus reducing the imaging time.

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Peng Xiao, Mathias Fink, and A. Claude Boccara "A PSF width independent of aberrations in spatially incoherent interferometry (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10073, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems III, 1007315 (24 April 2017); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2250011

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Point spread functions

Imaging systems

Interferometry

Optical coherence tomography

Wavefronts

Adaptive optics

Microscopes

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