A novel dual beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system is presented for microfluidics applications. The dual sensing-light-sheet approach presented here achieves high velocity flow measurement because the rapid re-imaging by the second sensing-light-sheet allows for particle tracking between each image-frame of the pair. We have demonstrated measurements of microchannel flow using 10 μm particles in a 700 μm deep channel with peak velocities of approximately 0.28 metres-per-second (m/s), approximately two orders of magnitude higher than previously reported OCT systems operating at a few millimeters-per-second.
A polling topology that employs optical switching based on the properties of erbium-doped fibres (EDFs) is used to interrogate an array of FBGs. The properties of the EDF are investigated in its pumped and un-pumped states and the EDFs’ switching properties are evaluated by comparing them with a high performance electronically controlled MEM optical switch. Potential advantages of the proposed technique are discussed.
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