Patent ID: 8903476

Claim:
A device providing two OCT probe functionalities via a single optical fiber, the device comprising: a handpiece having a probe tip disposed at an end thereof; disposed within the handpiece, multiple distinct parallel waveguides provided within a single optical fiber terminating within the probe tip; and at least two optical coherence tomography (OCT) light sources, a first one of the OCT light sources being optically coupled only to a first one of the multiple waveguides of the fiber at a proximal end thereof and a second one of the OCT light sources being optically coupled only to a second one of the multiple waveguides at the proximal end, light from the first light source being propagated from the proximal end to the probe tip in the first waveguide and light from the second light source being propagated from the proximal end to the probe tip in the second waveguide such that, at the probe tip, at least two respective OCT probe functionalities are provided; and data acquisition and processing hardware for processing at least two OCT scan data streams acquired using the at least two OCT probe functionalities.