Full-range Fourier domain optical coherence tomography imaging probe with a magnetic-driven resonant fiber cantilever

In this work, we developed a full-range Fourier domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) imaging probe with a magnetic-driven resonant fiber cantilever. A galvanometer-driven reference mirror provides a linear phase modulation to each M-scan/B-scan frame to enable complex conjugate-free, full-range FD-OCT imaging. A fiber cantilever inside the probe is driven by a low-voltage miniature magnetic transducer. The fiber cantilever scans at its resonant frequency synchronized to the phase modulation induced by the reference mirror. Using a CCD line-scan camera-based spectrometer, we demonstrated real-time full-range FD-OCT at 34 frame/s (1024 pixel lateral x 2048 pixel axial). (C) 2011 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). [DOI: 10.1117/1.3645088]