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Equidistant Recording of the Spectral Components in Ultra-Wideband Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography

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We develop an effective method for reducing nonequidistance when recording the spectral components of an interference signal in ultra-wideband spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. For this purpose, a corrector consisting of two identical prisms is used in a diffraction-grating spectrometer. The corrector rotation with respect to the diffraction-grating plane and a variation in the angle between the corrector elements allow one to adjust the equidistant spatial distribution of the spectral components in the photoreceiver array. It is shown experimentally that the developed method substitutes digital correction and leads to a significant reduction of the computational load in the optical coherence tomography device.

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Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Uchebnykh Zavedenii, Radiofizika, Vol. 60, No. 10, pp. 859–870, October 2017.

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Shilyagin, P.A., Ksenofontov, S., Moiseev, A.A. et al. Equidistant Recording of the Spectral Components in Ultra-Wideband Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Radiophys Quantum El 60, 769–778 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11141-018-9845-z

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