Beyond Fourier transform: break the axial resolution limit in optical coherence tomography
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a volumetric imaging modality that empowers the clinicians and scientists to noninvasively visualize and examine the microscopic cross-sectional architectures of biological samples. By taking advantages of the coherence gating, OCT could achieve micrometer-level axial sectioning with high sensitivity. In the past decade, substantial efforts have been made to push the axial resolution of Fourier-domain OCT (FD-OCT) further into the sub-micron regime via physically extending the system’s spectral bandwidth. Here, we would like to offer a new perspective on this problem. We argue that the coupling between the axial resolution and the spectral bandwidth in ...
