| 摘要 |
A real-time, dispersion-compensated low coherence interferometric system includes a fiber-optic, a bulk-optic, or a combination of bulk and fiber-optic system comprising a reference path and an observation path; a light source optically coupled to the fiber-optic, bulk-optic, or combination of bulk and fiber-optic system to illuminate the reference and observation paths; an optical detection system arranged to receive combined light returned along the reference and observation paths, the optical detection system providing detection signals; and a data processing system arranged to communicate with the optical detection system to receive the detection signals. The data processing system includes a parallel processor configured to process the detection signals to provide real-time dispersion compensation to numerically compensate for dispersion in the reference path relative to the observation path. |
