Chemically Etched Single Mode Fiber Tip for High Lateral Resolution Imaging in Optical Coherence Tomography

Kozo Taguchi; Masafumi Totsuka

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.516.585

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Chemically Etched Single Mode Fiber Tip for High Lateral Resolution Imaging in Optical Coherence Tomography

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In this paper, we propose a high lateral resolution common-path Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with the use of a chemically etched single mode fibre. In our experiments, a single mode optical fibre of 840 nm was used for preparing the tapered tips. Our system used a conical microlens that was chemically etched by a selective chemical etching technique using an etching solution of buffered hydrofluoric acid (BHF). From the experimental results, we verified that our proposed optical coherence tomography system could operate as a common-path Fourier domain OCT system and the apex angle of the chemically etched single mode fibre tip was a very important parameter for generating high-resolution OCT images.

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Key Engineering Materials (Volume 516)

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585-590

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.516.585

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June 2012

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Kozo Taguchi, Masafumi Totsuka

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Fibre Tip, Lateral Resolution, Medical Optics Instrumentation, Optical Coherence Tomography

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