Patent ID: 7791734

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a Michelson interferometer comprising a fiber-optic based optical coherence tomography (OCT) configuration and including an input arm, a reference arm, a sample arm and a detection arm, wherein said fiber optic based OCT configuration comprises a fiber optic splitter including an input arm fiber optic, a reference arm fiber optic, a sample arm fiber optic and a detection arm fiber optic, wherein said input arm comprises only one light source configured for coupling light into said input arm fiber optic to produce input light, wherein said input light travels from said input arm fiber optic through said splitter and out of said sample arm fiber optic and said reference arm fiber optic into said sample arm and said reference arm respectively to produce sample arm light and reference arm light respectively, wherein only said sample arm comprises a first wavefront corrector, a second wavefront corrector and a wavefront sensor, wherein said first wavefront corrector and said second wavefront corrector are configured to correct for wavefront error of the human eye, wherein said first wavefront corrector comprises a first deformable mirror, wherein said second wavefront corrector comprises a second deformable mirror operatively connected to a microelectromechanical system, wherein said reference arm does not comprise an adaptive optic, wherein said sample arm light travels to a target located at the end of said sample arm to produce target light, wherein at least a portion of said target light travels in a reverse direction along said sample arm, into said sample arm fiber optic and passes through said splitter to produce return target light, wherein said return sample arm light travels from said splitter and into said detection arm fiber optic to produce detection arm sample light, wherein said reference arm light travels to the end of said reference arm and is reflected by a reference arm mirror to produce reflected reference arm light, wherein said reflected reference arm light travels in a reverse direction along said reference arm, into said reference arm fiber optic and through said splitter to produce return reference arm light, wherein said return reference arm light travels from said splitter and into said detection arm fiber optic to produce detection arm reference light, wherein said detection arm sample light and said detection arm reference light combine to produce interference light, wherein said detection arm comprises a spectrometer, wherein said interference light is directed to said spectrometer to produce spectrometer data; and means for analyzing said spectrometer data to produce Fourier-domain OCT data.