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Optica Publishing Group
  • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
  • Vol. 5,
  • Issue 2,
  • pp. 33-36
  • (2001)

Measurement of Spatial Resolution in Fiber-optic Image Guides

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Abstract

Common methods of determining the spatial resolution of fiber-optic image guides are by measuring the diameter of individual microfibers or by the use of a resolution test target. However these methods cannot provide enough information of spatial resolution in ultrathin fiber-optic image guides. In this study, a simple method to measure the modulation transfer function (MTF) of an mage guide was developed. The MTFs of ultrathin image guides with 3 and 4<TEX>${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$</TEX> Um diameter were measured by examining transmitted sharp edge image. This method should be especially useful for measuring spatial resolution of ultrahigh resolution image guides with less than 5 <TEX>${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$</TEX> diameter microfibers because their spatial resolution cannot be determined by individual microfiber diameter due to crosstalk and leaky ray phenomena.

© 2001 Optical Society of Korea

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