Full-field birefringence imaging by thermal-light polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. I. Theory.
Appl Opt
; 42(19): 3800-10, 2003 Jul 01.
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ABSTRACT
A method for measuring birefringence by use of thermal-light polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography is presented. The use of thermal light brings to polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography a resolution in the micrometer range in three dimensions. The instrument is based on a Linnik interference microscope and makes use of achromatic quarter-wave plates. A mathematical representation of the instrument is presented here, and the detection scheme is described, together with a discussion of the validity domain of the equations used to evaluate the birefringence in the presence of white-light illumination.
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