System and method for optical coherence tomography

摘要

The system has a light source (15) for generating light (14), and an optical wave guide (17) through which the light emitted from an interferometer (10) is guided to another interferometer (20). The light injected into the interferometer (10) has a number of transversal modes, and the optical wave guide has a multimode-fiber to which the light is injected. Another number of transversal modes is excited in the optical wave guide and guided to the interferometer (20). The latter number of transversal modes is greater than the former number of transversal modes. An independent claim is also included for a method for optical coherence tomography.