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Image Transport Through Meter-Long Randomly Disordered Silica-Air Optical Fiber.

ABSTRACT: We present a randomly disordered silica-air optical fiber featuring a 28.5% air filling fraction in the structured region, and low attenuation below 1?dB per meter at visible wavelengths. The quality of images transported through this fiber is shown to be comparable to, or even better than, that of images sent through commercial multicore imaging fiber. We demonstrate robust high-quality optical image transfer through 90 cm-long fibers with disordered silica-air structure, more than an order of magnitude improvement compared to previous disordered fiber imaging distances. The effects of variations of wavelength and feature size on transported image quality are investigated experimentally.

SUBMITTER: Zhao J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5814544 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Image Transport Through Meter-Long Randomly Disordered Silica-Air Optical Fiber.

Zhao Jian J Lopez Jose Enrique Antonio JEA Zhu Zheyuan Z Zheng Donghui D Pang Shuo S Correa Rodrigo Amezcua RA Schülzgen Axel A

Scientific reports 20180215 1

We present a randomly disordered silica-air optical fiber featuring a 28.5% air filling fraction in the structured region, and low attenuation below 1 dB per meter at visible wavelengths. The quality of images transported through this fiber is shown to be comparable to, or even better than, that of images sent through commercial multicore imaging fiber. We demonstrate robust high-quality optical image transfer through 90 cm-long fibers with disordered silica-air structure, more than an order of ...[more]

PMID: 29449605

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