Polarization Sensitive Optical Coherence Tomography: optimization and application to Zebrafish imaging

PS-OCT is the extension of standard OCT systems and it takes advantage of the changes in polarization as light goes through tissues to provide additional information about the sample and evaluate the birefringence of the material. In this thesis we present a PS-OCT entirely built with fiber optics components that is simple and robust, based on the tunable source technology. We tested the functionality of the system firstly on an adhesive tape and then on a biological sample, a Zebrafish.