Systems and methods for imaging based on multiple cross-sectional images acquired at different angles are disclosed. According to an aspect, multiple cross-sectional images of an object are acquired at different angles. The method also includes registering the acquired cross-sectional images. Further, the method includes reconstructing an enhanced resolution image of the object based on the registered images. As a result of registering the images, a distortion map is generated that is coregistered with the high-resolution image. The method also includes displaying an image of the object based on the enhanced resolution image and the distortion map.

Optical pressure sensor assemblies that can be used with existing catheters and imaging systems. Pressure sensors may be compatible with atherectomy and occlusion-crossing catheters, where intravascular pressure measurements at various vessel locations are needed to determine treatment efficacy. The pressure sensors may employ an optical pressure measurement mechanism using optical interferometry, and may be integrated with existing imaging modalities such as OCT. The pressure sensor assemblies may include a movable membrane that deflects in response to intravascular pressure; an optical fiber that transmits light to the movable membrane and receives light reflected or scattered back from the movable membrane into the fiber; and a processor or controller configured to determine the distance traveled by the light received in the fiber from the movable membrane, where the distance traveled is proportional to the intravascular pressure exerted against the membrane.

A dental optical coherence tomography system for scanning a sample has a swept source laser configured to generate output light having a range of wavelengths. Two or more optical channels each provide a reference and sample path for the output light, wherein each optical channel has a corresponding detector to provide an output signal according to combined light from the sample and reference, wherein the detector output signal characterizes back-reflected or back-scattered light from the sample path over a range of depths below a surface. A scanning reflector simultaneously directs sample path output light from each of the two or more channels toward the sample surface and directs returned light from the sample to the corresponding sample path and detector. A processor is in signal communication with the detector for each optical channel and that is configured to record and store results from the output signals received from each detector.

Various optical systems equipped with diode laser light sources are discussed in the present application. One example system includes a diode laser light source for providing a beam of radiation. The diode laser has a spectral output bandwidth when driven under equilibrium conditions. The system further includes a driver circuit to apply a pulse of drive current to the diode laser. The pulse causes a variation in the output wavelength of the diode laser during the pulse such that the spectral output bandwidth is at least two times larger the spectral output bandwidth under the equilibrium conditions.

Method and system for determining separation distance between an object and a processing or measuring tool involve generating a measurement beam of low coherence optical radiation, leading the measurement beam towards the object and the reflected measurement beam towards an optical interferometric sensor assembly in a first direction of incidence, generating a reference beam of low coherence optical radiation, and leading the reference beam towards the optical interferometric sensor assembly in a second direction of incidence, superimposing the measurement and reference beams on a common region of incidence, detecting position of a pattern of interference fringes between the measurement and reference beams on the region of incidence, and determining difference in optical length between a measurement optical path and a reference optical path on position of the pattern of interference fringes along an illumination axis to determine current separation distance between the processing or measuring tool and the object.

A digital measuring device implemented on a photonic integrated circuit, the digital measuring device including a tunable laser source implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to sweep over a frequency range to provide multi-wavelength light, a first waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to direct a first portion of light from the laser source at a moving object and receive light reflected from the moving object, a second waveguide structure implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to combine a second portion of light from the laser source with the light reflected from the moving object to produce a measurement beam, and a first detector implemented on the photonic integrated circuit configured to detect intensity values of the measurement beam to measure a distance between the digital measuring device and the moving object.

A system and method for performing Optical Coherence Tomography on a sample utilizes collimated, phase modulated beams of light in an interferometer. At least one of the beams of light utilized exists as an Airy beam for at least a portion of the procedure, obviating any deleterious impact caused by the Gaussian beam diffraction. The system may incorporate a light source, polarization beam splitter, delay line, non-polarization beam splitters, lenses, phase masks, waveplates, and mirrors, any or all of which may be controlled by a computing element.

A system and method for performing Optical Coherence Tomography on a sample utilizes collimated, phase modulated beams of light in an interferometer. At least one of the beams of light utilized exists as an Airy beam for at least a portion of the procedure, obviating any deleterious impact caused by the Gaussian beam diffraction. The system may incorporate a light source, polarization beam splitter, delay line, non-polarization beam splitters, lenses, phase masks, waveplates, and mirrors, any or all of which may be controlled by a computing element.

The present description relates to a stabilized interferometric system comprising: a light source (210) for emitting an initial beam of coherent light; a spatial light modulator (220) configured to receive at least a first part of said initial beam and input data (203) and configured to emit a spatially modulated beam resulting from a spatial modulation of a parameter of said first part of said initial beam based on said input data; a scattering medium (230) configured to receive said spatially modulated beam; a detection unit (240) configured to acquire an interference pattern (IN.sub.0) resulting from the interferences between randomly scattered optical paths taken by the spatially modulated beam through the scattering material; a control unit (250) configured to vary the frequency of the laser source in order to at least partially compensate a change in said interference pattern resulting from a change in at least one environmental parameter.

The present disclosure provides a compressed ultrafast imaging velocity interferometer system for any reflector, comprising a light source and target system, an etalon interference system, a compressed ultrafast imaging system, a timing control system and a data processing system. An imaging device in the traditional imaging velocity interferometer system for any reflector is replaced by a compressed ultrafast imaging system, a compressed ultrafast Photography (CUP) is introduced in an imaging process, multi-frame images, i.e. three-dimensional images for two-dimensional space and one-dimensional time, are reconstructed via a single measurement by a CUP-VISAR two-dimensional ultrafast dynamic image imaging, a complete dynamic process of a two-dimensional interference fringes image is restored, and spatiotemporal evolution information of a shock wave is effectively acquired, improving an imaging performance of the imaging velocity interferometer system for any reflector in dimension, and achieving a goal that could not be achieved before.