Optomechanical design and fabrication of resonant microscanners for a scanning fiber endoscope

Optical Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2006, Pages

  Brown, Christopher M ^a,b   Reinhall, Per G ^c   Karasawa, Satoshi ^d   Seibel, Eric J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c University of Washington   (United States)

^d PENTAX Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Endoscope; Microfabrication; Optical scanning; Optomechanical design; Resonant scanner

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; ENDOSCOPY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROOPTICS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL DESIGN; OPTICAL FIBER FABRICATION; OPTICAL TRANSFER FUNCTION;

MICROFABRICATION; OPTOMECHANICAL DESIGN; RESONANT SCANNER;

SCANNING;

EID: 33748606347     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.2188387     Document Type: Article

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