Non-contact all-optic OCT-PAM imaging with shared detection light.

We proposed a non-contact all-optic OCT-PAM dual-modal system based on a single detection light source. A homodyne low-coherence interferometer was adopted to detect the vibration induced by photoacoustic excitation. The optical coherence tomography (OCT) and photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) shared the same broadband light source for signal detection, thus simplifying the dual-modal system and making it compact.