The lecture will review technical perspectives of recent developments in optical sources, scanning, tracking and signal processing that with further refinements can be translated to better imaging relevant to ophthalmology, optometry and biosciences. The modern OCT technology for ophthalmology and optometry relies on spectral (Fourier)-domain OCT. I will introduce an OCT method that radically changes the operation of such technology, where the Fourier transform or equivalent is replaced by multiple electrical processors for each optical path difference (OPD) in the sample investigated. I will refer to the opportunities to parallel processing opened by this procedure enabled by the availability of ultra high sped tunable lasers for OCT. I will show how progress in OCTA and tracking for imaging the eye are applied to some specific microscopy applications in biosciences. To the end, I will present our research on two technologies for ultra fast tuning lasers for faster acquisition of OCT data
About the speaker
Adrian Podoleanu is the Head of the Applied Optics Group, Professor of Biomedical Optics in the School of Physical Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury. He is an investigator of the Biomedical Research Centre, Institute of Ophthalmology London, an honorary professor in the University College London and of the “Victor Babes” Medicine and Pharmacy University of Timisoara, Romania and former visiting professor in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and former visiting scientist in the University of Auckland, NZ. He received the Ph. D. degree in Electronics from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty, Technical University of Bucharest, Romania in 1984. Fellowships: IOP, Optica, SPIE Awards: Order of the Crown, officer, Royal House of Romania, 2017; Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award 2015-2020; European Research Council, Advanced Research Fellowship, 2010-2015; Ambassador’s Diploma, Embassy of Romania in the
