Ultra-high-speed phase-sensitive optical coherence reflectometer with a stretched pulse supercontinuum source

作者：Song Hoseong; Cho Seung Bum; Kim Dong Uk; Jeong Sungho; Kim Dug Young^*

来源：Applied Optics, 2011, 50(21): 4000-4004.

DOI：10.1364/AO.50.004000

We demonstrate an ultra-high-speed phase-sensitive time-wavelength-domain optical coherence reflectometer with a stretched pulse supercontinuum source. A pulsed fiber laser operating at 10 MHz repetition rate was used to generate a pulsed supercontinuum of 30 ps pulse duration by using a non-linear optical fiber. The supercontinuum pulses are stretched into 70 ns pulses with a highly dispersive fiber. With this stretched pulse source, we have built a phase-sensitive optical coherence reflectometer that measures the spectral interferogram of reflected light. By using the linear relation between the wavelength and the temporal position in a linearly chirped pulse, ultra-high-speed spectrum measurement can be obtained with this method in the time domain. We have demonstrated ultra-high-speed two-dimensional surface profiling for a standard image target and high-speed single-point monitoring for a fixed point under vibrational motion. It is shown that the measurement speed for the position of a single point can be as fast as 2.5MHz, while the position accuracy can be better than 4.49 nm.

• 出版日期2011-7-20