Photonic Crystal Fibers for Optical Coherence Tomography Systems

Since the breakthrough of fiber industries after inventing photonic crystal fibers (PCFs) in 1996, research on PCFs is ongoing with full speed as PCFs contain a wavelength-scale morphological microstructure running down their lengths which provide PCFs tunable optical properties as per design requirements. These properties of PCFs have attracted researchers to think an unimaginable thinking, which was quite impossible using conventional optical fibers before coming these new technologies. As a result, PCFs have become an attractive and endless research fields in different research areas including biomedical engineering, tomographic imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) along with other promising applications in different sectors. Therefore, this book focuses on numerical modeling and properties optimization of PCFs for generating supercontinuum (SC) in normal dispersion region for various OCT applications.