Patent ID: 7515274

Claim:
A method for imaging an associated object, comprising the steps of: directing one part of a low coherence optical radiation towards an associated object through an optical system, which ensures focusing the low coherence optical radiation onto the object; scanning the low coherence optical radiation being directed towards an associated object over a transverse scanning surface, that is approximately orthogonal to the direction of propagation of said optical radiation; providing a first lens component with positive focal power after the transverse scanning surface and providing a second lens component with positive focal power after the first lens component, where the first lens component and the second lens component are positioned to provide a constant propagation time for the low coherence optical radiation propagating from a given point of the transverse scanning surface to a corresponding conjugate point of an image plane, thereby eliminating a transverse scanning related aberration of an optical path length for the low coherence optical radiation directed towards an associated object; directing another part of the low coherence optical radiation along a reference optical path, and combining an optical radiation having returned from an associated object with an optical radiation that passed through the reference optical path; visualizing an intensity of the optical radiation having returned from an associated object using for that an optical radiation that is a result of the combining.