2022/05/31 by Bais, Ashish Singh, Chouhan, Lokendra Singh, Andrews, Joseph Thomas
#Applied Physics (physics.app-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Optics (physics.optics)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.15537
Integrating all optical components of an optical coherence tomography (OCT) device into a single chip is a non-trivial and a challenging job. The design and development of such a lab-on-a chip will be possible only via Micro-Opto-Electro-Mechanical System (MOEMS) technology. The reproducible and integrated optical device fabrication would reduce cost and size many fold as compared to bulk or fiber optic OCT system. A miniaturized OCT of size less than 5mm2 area is designed, simulated and optimized. The successful fabrication of this device would help in point-of-contact devices as well as embedded biomedical sensor applications. Also, the design promises the possibility of fabrication of all optical components of OCT integrated into a single chip.