[OPTICAL REVIEW Vol. 6, No. 5 (1999) 455-458]
Dispersive Coherence Spectrotomography with White-Light Continuum
Wataru WATANABE, Yoshiyasu MASUDA and Kazuyoshi ITOH
Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1, Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871 Japan
(Received April 26, 1999; Accepted June 29, 1999)
We propose dispersive coherence spectrotomography with white-light continuum to extract both range and spectral properties inside a medium. The main feature is that the dispersive coherence spectrotomography has a high dynamic range in depth and high signal-to-noise ratio making the most of the extreme brightness of the white-light continuum.
Key words : optical tomography, low-coherence interferometry, white-light continuum, spectral dispersion, spectral imaging