Khaled Aljasem et al 2008 J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 10 044012 doi:10.1088/1464-4258/10/4/044012
Khaled Aljasem, Armin Werber, Andreas Seifert and Hans Zappe
Show affiliationsA novel miniaturized fiber optic tunable endoscopic probe based on a pneumatically actuated micro-lens is presented. The probe has a diameter of ~4 mm and is integrated into a time-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) system. The integration of the tunable lens with the OCT system leads to a uniformly high lateral resolution and high contrast of the OCT images over the entire scan depth. In addition, the tunable probe can be considered as a platform for integrating multiple microsystems, including particularly scanning micro-mirrors, in a single high-performance endoscopic OCT system.
07.60.Vg Fiber-optic instruments
Instrumentation and measurement
Issue 4 (April 2008)
Received 16 October 2007, accepted for publication 13 December 2007
Published 3 April 2008
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