A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) mirror based endoscopic swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) system that can perform three-dimensional (3-D) imaging at high speed is reported. The key component enabling 3-D endoscopic imaging is a two-axis MEMS scanning mirror which has a 0.8×0.8 mm2 mirror plate and a 1.6×1.4 mm2 device footprint. The diameter of the endoscopic probe is only 3.5 mm. The imaging rate of the SS-OCT system is 50 frames/s. OCT images of both human suspicious oral leukoplakia tissue and normal buccal mucosa were taken in vivo and compared. The OCT imaging result agrees well with the histopathological analysis.
Infrared focal plane detector has a multilayer configuration which consists of substrate, chip, readout IC, Indium interconnects, epoxy and electrical lead board, it is packaged layer by layer precisely. Because of the difference in thermal expansion between the layers, with repeated thermal cycling plenty of thermal stress produced by assembling errors will lead result in failure of the interconnects or lead to damage to the detector pixels. In this paper, based on a detector-Dewar assembly, we analyze the thermal stress on the detector by different packaging accuracy level. With the allowable thermal stress, we optimize the processes of the packaging experiment and redesign the fixtures used in the packaging processes to improve assembly accuracy, on this condition, the detector-Dewar assembly assembled satisfies our design requirement, and the thermal stress caused by the cooler is below the range permitted.
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