Integrated-optics-based optical coherence tomography (Thesis)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a high resolution, imaging technique that has developed over the last 20 years from a complicated laboratory setup into a ready-to-use commercially available device. Instead of using electronic time gating as being used by ultrasound (US) imaging, in OCT, the optical analogue of US imaging, determines the time of flight using low coherence interferometry. To date, OCT has many clinical applications and is widely used in urology, cardiovascular imaging, dentistry, dermatology and ophthalmology. Currently OCT devices are bulky and expensive, which limits the use of OCT, not only in its existing applications, but also in ...
