Nicolas Barré,1 Ravi Shivaraman,2 Lisa Ackermann,3,4 Simon Moser,1 Michael Schmidt,3,4 Patrick Salter,2 Martin J. Boothhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9525-8981,2,5 Alexander Jesacher1,5
1Medizinische Univ. Innsbruck (Austria) 2Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom) 3Lehrstuhl für Photonische Technologien, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) 4Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies (Germany) 5Erlangen Graduate School in Advanced Optical Technologies, Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany)
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We present a tomographic reconstruction algorithm that is able to reconstruct waveguide profiles from a set of intensity images taken at different illumination angles. Very recently, such algorithms have become the state of the art in the community of bio imaging, but have never been applied to direct laser written structures such as waveguides.
We adapt the algorithm to our application of characterizing translation-invariant structures and extend it to jointly estimate optical aberrations introduced by the imaging system. We show that a correct estimation of these aberrations is necessary for making effective use of high-angle tomographic data.
Furthermore, we present a novel method for cross-validating our RI reconstructions by comparing en-face widefield images of thin waveguide sections with matching simulations based on the retrieved RI profile.
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Nicolas Barré, Ravi Shivaraman, Lisa Ackermann, Simon Moser, Michael Schmidt, Patrick Salter, Martin J. Booth, Alexander Jesacher, "Refractive index tomography of direct fs-laser written waveguides," Proc. SPIE PC12012, Advanced Fabrication Technologies for Micro/Nano Optics and Photonics XV, PC1201203 (5 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2616407