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Published August 6, 2007 | Published
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SNR enhancement through phase dependent signal reconstruction algorithms for phase separated interferometric signals

Abstract

We report several signal reconstruction algorithms for processing phase separated homodyne interferometric signals. Methods that take advantage of the phase of the signal are experimentally shown to achieve a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) improvement of up to 5 dB over commonly used algorithms. To begin, we present a derivation of the SNR resulting from five image reconstruction algorithms in the context of a 3x3 fiber-coupler based homodyne optical coherence tomography (OCT) system, and clearly show the improvement in SNR associated with phase-based algorithms. Finally, we experimentally verify this improvement and demonstrate the enhancement in contrast and improved image quality afforded by these algorithms through homodyne OCT imaging of a Xenopus laevis tadpole. These algorithms can be generally applied in signal extraction processing where multiple phase separated measurements are available.

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© 2007 Optical Society of America Original Manuscript: June 19, 2007; Manuscript Accepted: July 24, 2007; Revised Manuscript: July 20, 2007; Published: July 26, 2007. This work was supported by a NSF Career Award, BES-0547657. E.J. McDowell acknowledges support from an NIH Ruth L. Kirschtein NRSA fellowship, EB006694.

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