Image quality comparison before and after the thermal modification of the multicore fiber endoscope. (IMAGE)

Light Publishing Center, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics And Physics, CAS

Image quality comparison before and after the thermal modification of the multicore fiber endoscope.

Caption

 Image quality comparison before and after the thermal modification of the multicore fiber endoscope.  (a) Scheme of the multicore fiber modification (top) and microscope image of the fiber before (bottom left) and after (bottom right) modification showing the enlargement of the individual fiber cores; Endoscopic imaging of (b) a point source, (c) test chart and (d) 10 micron beads, performed with an unmodified and modified fiber showing the increase in light collection and image contrast after fiber modification.

Credit

by Kinga Zolnacz, Ronja Stephan, Jakob Dremel, Katharina Hausmann, Matthias Ließmann, Michael Steinke, Juergen Czarske, Robert Kuschmierz

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