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Full-field quantitative phase and polarisation-resolved imaging through an optical fibre bundle.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Gordon, George SD 
Sawyer, Travis 
Macfaden, Alexander J 

Abstract

Flexible optical fibres, used in conventional medical endoscopy and industrial inspection, scramble phase and polarisation information, restricting users to amplitude-only imaging. Here, we exploit the near-diagonality of the multi-core fibre (MCF) transmission matrix in a parallelised fibre characterisation architecture, enabling accurate imaging of quantitative phase (error <0.3 rad) and polarisation-resolved (errors <10%) properties. We first demonstrate accurate recovery of optical amplitude and phase in two polarisations through the MCF by measuring and inverting the transmission matrix, and then present a robust Bayesian inference approach to resolving 5 polarimetric properties of samples. Our method produces high-resolution (9.0±2.6μm amplitude, phase; 36.0±10.4μm polarimetric) full-field images at working distances up to 1mm over a field-of-view up to 750×750μm 2 using an MCF with potential for flexible operation. We demonstrate the potential of using quantitative phase for computational image focusing and polarisation-resolved properties in imaging birefringence.

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Keywords

5102 Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 51 Physical Sciences

Journal Title

Opt Express

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Journal ISSN

1094-4087
1094-4087

Volume Title

27

Publisher

The Optical Society

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Sponsorship
Cancer Research UK (21102)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J009369/1)
Cancer Research UK (24669)
European Commission (630729)
Cancer Research Uk (None)
Cancer Research UK (C14303/A17197)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/N014588/1)
Cancer Research UK (C14303/A17197)
Cancer Research UK (C20/A20976)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/R003599/1)