Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with an arrayed waveguide grating spectrometer

We designed and fabricated an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) with 2.1cmx2.6cm footprint. Using the AWG as spectrometer in a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) set-up we demonstrate OCT imaging up to the maximum depth of 1 mm with 19 µm spatial resolution in air and in a multi-layered phantom.