This presentation will describe PyMieSim, a Python package developed to estimate the collection efficiency of incoherent and coherent imaging techniques with respect to various scatterer geometries. In particular, it will focus on few-mode optical coherence tomography (FM-OCT), in which a photonic lantern separates projections of a backscattered wavefront onto the different linearly polarized (LP) modes of a few-mode fiber. Each mode is converted by the lantern into the fundamental mode of a single-mode fiber to produce a distinct OCT image. PyMieSim was used to predict how different scatterer geometries would affect the OCT images acquired from the different LP modes collected by the lantern, thus paving the way for sub-resolution OCT.
In this work, we present SuPyMode, a Python package for designing and optimizing the design of new fiber optic components. The software allows simulating the optical behavior of custom fiber optic structures and provides analysis tools based on coupled mode theory to retrieve insightful parameters, such as the adiabatic criterion. The library has been developed with an intuitive and easy-to-handle user interface linked to a C++ core for fast computation. The library also offers visualization tools for a comprehensive examination of the simulated results. SuPyMode has already successfully predicted improved design for newly developed 2- and 3-mode modally specific photonic lanterns.
In this project, we demonstrate the fabrication of short, yet adiabatic 2- and 3-mode selective optical lanterns using double-clad fibers as input, replacing the newly demonstrated graded index fiber. Using three types of fibers with slightly different numerical apertures, we obtained very short components while retaining full adiabaticity. The resulting photonic lanterns are short and less fragile than components made with the current fabrication process, and they feature both low excess loss and high mode selectivity.
In this work, we present a fast and flexible Mie-scattering python library: PyMieSim. This software allows the end-user to emulate the light interaction of a complete optical system composed of a light source, a scatterer, and a detector and to, subsequently, compute the optical properties of such a system. PyMieSim also lets the user define a range for the optical system attributes and observe the properties to be evaluated within those ranges. Such a tool has applications in many fields, such as optical imaging, flux cytometry, or particle sizing.
We present here an all-fiber Few-Mode OCT system making use of a modally specific photonic lantern to simultaneously de-multiplex light exciting the first two propagation modes of a few-mode fiber. Each mode collects a distinct projection of the scattering phase function from light backscattered by the sample. This implementation is mechanically more robust, has an optimal interferometric contrast and is compatible with commercially available OCT systems. We present a proof-of-concept through the imaging of micro-beads generating varying contrast depending on their relative size. Such a system offers an additional means of intrinsic contrast for OCT.
We present a system combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and multispectral imaging (MSI) for coregistered structural imaging and surface color imaging. We first describe and numerically validate an optimization model to guide the selection of the MSI wavelengths and their relative intensities. We then demonstrate the integration of this model into an all-fiber bench-top system. We implement frequency-domain multiplexing for the MSI to enable concurrent acquisition of both OCT and MSI at OCT acquisition rates. Such a system could be implemented in endoscopic practices to provide multimodal, high-resolution imaging of deep organ structures that are currently inaccessible to standard video endoscopes.
Previous works have demonstrated feasibility of combining optical coherence tomography (OCT) and hyper-spectral imaging (HSI) through a single double-clad fiber (DCF). In this proceeding we present the continued development of a system combining both modalities and capable of rapid imaging. We discuss the development of a rapidly scanning, dual-band, polygonal swept-source system which combines NIR (1260-1340 nm) and visible (450-800 nm) wavelengths. The NIR band is used for OCT imaging while visible light allows HSI. Scanning rates up to 24 kHz are reported. Furthermore, we present and discuss the fiber system used for light transport, delivery and collection, and the custom signal acquisition software. Key points include the use of a double-clad fiber coupler as well as important alignments and back-reflection management. Simultaneous and co-registered imaging with both modalities is presented in a bench-top system
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