In this talk, a spectral domain polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (SDPS-OCT) system has been developed so as to obtain high scan speed, high dynamic range and high sensitivity, and simultaneously get birefringence contrast of some biological tissue. To reduce corruption of the DC and autocorrelation terms to images, we introduce the two phase method. The stocks vectors (I, Q, U, and V) of the backscattered light from the specimen have been reconstructed by processing the signals from the two channels which are responsible for detecting the vertical and horizontal polarization state light separately. Further, the phase retardation between the two orthogonal polarization states has been acquired. The results from rabbit eye show that SDPS-OCT system based on the two phase method has great potential to imaging biological tissue.
A spectral domain Polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography (SDPS-OCT) system has been developed to acquire depth images of biological tissues such as porcine tendon, rabbit eye. The Stocks vectors (I, Q, U, and V) of the backscattered light from the biological tissues have been reconstructed. Further, the phase retardation and polarization degree between the two orthogonal polarizing states have been computed. Reconstructed images, i.e. birefringence images, from Stokes parameters, retardation and polarization degree of biological tissues show significant local variations in the polarization state. And the birefringence contrast of biological tissue possibly changes by some outside force. In addition, the local thickness of the birefringence layer determined with our system is significant. The results presented show SDPS-OCT is a potentially powerful technique to investigate tissue structural properties on the basis of the fact that any fibrous structure with biological tissues can influence the polarization state of light.
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