Adaptive optics full-field OCT: a resolution almost insensitive to aberrations
(Conference Presentation)

Peng Xiao; Mathias Fink; A. Claude Boccara

doi:10.1117/12.2214545

26 April 2016 Adaptive optics full-field OCT: a resolution almost insensitive to aberrations (Conference Presentation)

Peng Xiao, Mathias Fink, A. Claude Boccara

Proceedings Volume 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX; 96970Y (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214545
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2016, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

A Full-Field OCT (FFOCT) setup coupled to a compact transmissive liquid crystal spatial light modulator (LCSLM) is used to induce or correct aberrations and simulate eye examinations. To reduce the system complexity, strict pupil conjugation was abandoned. During our work on quantifying the effect of geometrical aberrations on FFOCT images, we found that the image resolution is almost insensitive to aberrations. Indeed if the object channel PSF is distorted, its interference with the reference channel conserves the main feature of an unperturbed PSF with only a reduction of the signal level. This unique behavior is specific to the use of a spatially incoherent illumination. Based on this, the FFOCT image intensity was used as the metric for our wavefront sensorless correction. Aberration correction was first conducted on an USAF resolution target with the LSCLM as both aberration generator and corrector. A random aberration mask was induced, and the low-order Zernike Modes were corrected sequentially according to the intensity metric function optimization. A Ficus leaf and a fixed mouse brain tissue slice were also imaged to demonstrate the correction of sample self-induced wavefront distortions. After optimization, more structured information appears for the leaf imaging. And the high-signal fiber-like myelin fiber structures were resolved much more clearly after the whole correction process for mouse brain imaging. Our experiment shows the potential of this compact AO-FFOCT system for aberration correction imaging. This preliminary approach that simulates eyes aberrations correction also opens the path to a simple implementation of FFOCT adaptive optics for retinal examinations.

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Peng Xiao, Mathias Fink, and A. Claude Boccara "Adaptive optics full-field OCT: a resolution almost insensitive to aberrations (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 9697, Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XX, 96970Y (26 April 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2214545

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KEYWORDS

Aberration correction

Adaptive optics

Optical coherence tomography

Imaging systems

Point spread functions

Structured optical fibers

Eye

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