Design consideration and performance analysis of OCT-based topography

Panomsak Meemon; Jianing Yao; Jannick P. Rolland

doi:10.1117/12.2041419

4 March 2014 Design consideration and performance analysis of OCT-based topography

Panomsak Meemon, Jianing Yao, Jannick P. Rolland

Proceedings Volume 8934, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVIII; 89343L (2014) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041419
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2014, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We report a study on design consideration and performance analysis of OCT-based topography by tracking of maximum intensity at each layer’s interface. We demonstrate that, for a given stabilized OCT system, a high precision and accuracy of OCT-based layers and thickness topography in the order of tens nanometer can be achieved by using a technique of maximum amplitude tracking. The submicron precision was obtained by over sampling through the FFT of the acquired spectral fringes but was eventually limited by the system stability. Furthermore, we report characterization of a precision, repeatability, and accuracy of the surfaces, sub-surfaces, and thickness topography using our optimized FD-OCT system. We verified that for a given stability of our OCT system, precision of the detected position of signal’s peak of down to 20 nm was obtained. In addition, we quantified the degradation of the precision caused by sensitivity fall-off over depth of FD-OCT. The measured precision is about 20 nm at about 0.1 mm depth, and degrades to about 80 nm at 1 mm depth, a position of about 10 dB sensitivity fall-off. The measured repeatability of thickness measurements over depth was approximately 0.04 micron. Finally, the accuracy of the system was verified by comparing with a digital micrometer gauging.

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Panomsak Meemon, Jianing Yao, and Jannick P. Rolland "Design consideration and performance analysis of OCT-based topography", Proc. SPIE 8934, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XVIII, 89343L (4 March 2014); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2041419

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Optical coherence tomography

Fabry–Perot interferometers

Interfaces

Silica

Signal detection

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Precision measurement

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