Fig. 1.
Examples of fringing artifacts in Gaussian beam coherent imaging systems. (a) Transmission image of SU-8 patterned US air forth 1951 optical resolution target on barium fluoride (BaF2) substrate imaged with single diverged QCL beam on FLIR A305 thermal camera (FLIR Systems, Nashua, NH, USA), (b) Absorbance image of breast tissue cores at 1050 cm−1.