Predicting the transmission matrix of graded index media (Conference Presentation)

Dirk E. Boonzajer Flaes; Jan Stopka; Sergey Turtaev; Stefan Witte; Johannes de Boer; Tom Tyc; Tomáš Čižmár

doi:10.1117/12.2290678

15 March 2018 Predicting the transmission matrix of graded index media (Conference Presentation)

Dirk E. Boonzajer Flaes, Jan Stopka, Sergey Turtaev, Stefan Witte, Johannes de Boer, Tom Tyc, Tomáš Čižmár

Proceedings Volume 10502, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems IV; 105021C (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290678
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2018, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

Multimode fibers are a promising tool for high resolution, low-cost, minimally invasive endoscopic imaging. The fiber can be used both to illuminate the sample, which may be buried deep inside the tissue, and to collect the backreflected light. Except for the bare fiber, no other imaging optics have to be inserted, enabling a device with a very small diameter. However, light propagating through the fiber is scrambled before it hits the sample. This renders straightforward imaging impossible, but if this scrambling is known with high accuracy, for instance because the transmission matrix has been measured, the scrambling process can be compensated before the light enters the fiber. For step index multimode fibers, where the refractive index profile consists of a cylindrical core with a constant but higher refractive index than the cladding, it has been shown that the transmission matrix can be predicted for any fiber orientation. Graded index fibers (GIF), where the refractive index profile resembles a parabola, offer numerous advantages, most prominently they are much less sensitive to bending. We measured the transmission matrix of a large GIF and show that we can fully understand the transmission matrix in terms of guided fiber modes, and simultaneously acquire accurate knowledge of the refractive index profile. We also show that although the quality of a commercially available graded index fiber is not sufficient to perform the same analysis, imaging performance of a graded index fiber is much more resilient to bending than the imaging performance of a comparable step index fiber. This demonstrates the need for a graded-index fiber with a high quality refractive index profile.

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Dirk E. Boonzajer Flaes, Jan Stopka, Sergey Turtaev, Stefan Witte, Johannes de Boer, Tom Tyc, and Tomáš Čižmár "Predicting the transmission matrix of graded index media (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 10502, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Control for Biological Systems IV, 105021C (15 March 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2290678

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Refractive index

Graded index fibers

Multimode fibers

Light scattering

Tissue optics

Cladding

Endoscopy

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