Development and Fibre Integration Issues for OCT, using Fibre Optics
Researcher: Irina Trifanov
Supervisors: Professor Adrian Gh. Podoleanu, University of Kent, and Dr. Antonio. B Lobo Ribeiro, Mutiwave Photonics (now with the Faculty of Health Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto, Portugal
Project funding: HIRESOMI
Outline
The project was a joint collaboration between University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (host institution) and Multiwave Photonics, Maia, Portugal (guest institution). The project began with a 12 months training and research period in Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) at University of Kent. The second part (24 months) was carried out at Multiwave Photonics. The company offers innovative optical sources based on fiber-optic technologies, as well as product design, product development and engineering services aimed at developing and selling cost-effective and reliable products and solutions.
The major part of the PhD project was focused on development of new fibre-based optical sources for Optical Coherence Tomography. Two compact sources based on 1 micron technology were developed and tested: a broadband source (BBS) and a swept source (SS). Their specifications have been carefully tailored to meet the demands required explicitly for medical applications (ophthalmology). The effort has been mostly market driven, as there is a high demand in developing sources particularly for this wavelength region due to significant improvements in image penetration.
List of publications and conferences
Peer-reviewed paper(s):
I.Trifanov, P. Caldas, L. Neagu, R. Romero, M. O. Berendt, J. R. Salcedo, A. Gh. Podoleanu and A. B. Lobo Ribeiro, “Combined Neodymium-Ytterbium Doped ASE Fiber Optic Source for Optical Coherence Tomography Applications”, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 23 (1), 21-23 (2011).
2. I. Trifanov, A. Bradu, L. Neagu, P. Guerreiro, A. B. Lobo Ribeiro and A. Gh. Podoleanu, Experimental method to find the optimum excitation waveform to quench mechanical resonances of Fabry-Perot tunable filters used in swept sources, submitted to IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (Dec.2010).
3. Irina Trifanov, Michael Hughes, Adrian Gh. Podoleanu, Richard Rosen, Quasi-simultaneous optical coherence tomography and confocal imaging, Journal of Biomedical Optics 13(4), 044015 (2008).
Conference paper(s):
1 I. Trifanov, A. Bradu, L. Neagu, A.B. Lobo Ribeiro, and A. Gh. Podoleanu, “Dual excitation waveform Fabry-Perot tunable filters used in swept sources”, submitted to Biomedical Optics 2011, SPIE/OSA Europe (Munich, Germany , May 22-26, 2011).
2. I. Trifanov, L. Neagu, A. Bradu, A. Gh. Podoleanu and A.B. Lobo Ribeiro, “Characterization of a swept source at 1 μm for optical coherence tomography”, in Proc. SPIE vol.7889, Conf. on Optical Coherence Tomography and Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedicine XIV, Photonics West 2011 (San Francisco, USA, Jan. 22-27, 2011), paper 7889-100.
3. I. Trifanov, P. Caldas, L. Neagu, R. Romero, M. O. Berendt, J. R. Salcedo, A. Gh. Podoleanu, A. B. Lobo Ribeiro, 20 mW, 70 nm Bandwidth ASE Fibre Optic Source at 1060 nm Wavelength Region for Optical Coherence Tomography, accepted for publication on SPIE LASE 2010 Conf. on Fiber Lasers VII: Technology, Systems, and Applications”, SPIE Photonics West 2010 (San Francisco, California, USA, 23-28 Jan. 2010), pp. 7580-23.
4. I. Trifanov, M.O. Berendt, J.R. Salcedo, A. Podoleanu and A.B. Lobo Ribeiro, Development of Fibre Optic Broadband Sources at 1 μm region for Optical Coherence Tomography, in Proc. of 1st Canterbury Workshop on OCT and Adaptive Optics, SPIE vol.7139 (Canterbury, Kent, U.K., 6-12 Sep. 2008), p.713906.
Posters:
1.Characterization of a swept source at 1 μm for optical coherence tomography (Presented at Photonics West 2011 (San Francisco, USA , Jan. 22-27, 2011)
2.Development of Fibre Optic Broadband Sources at 1 μm region for Optical Coherence Tomography (presented at 1st Canterbury Workshop on OCT and Adaptive Optics, Canterbury, Kent, U.K. 6-12 Sep. 2008).