Abstract
In this thesis, an efficient light source for high resolution optical coherence tomography system was designed, constructed and studied. We optimized the characteristics of a supercontinuum light source generated in optical communication single-mode fiber pumped with noise-like pulses. Such kind of pulses can propagate over a long distance in optical fibers while maintaining the packet duration to generate broadband supercontinuum. The center wavelength of the generated supercontinuum is 1060 nm and the FWHM of the output spectrum can exceed 320 nm. We set up a free space Michelson interferometer with both axial and lateral scanning schemes as a prototype time-domain optical coherence tomography system. The experimentally measured point spread function indicates an axial resolution of <5 μm as compared to a theoretical resolution of <1.6 μm.