Novel concept of GRIN optical systems for high resolution microendoscopy. Part 1: Physical aspects

Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE

Volumn 6432, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Messerschmidt, Bernhard ^a   Kraeplin, Anke ^a   Schenkl, Selma ^b   Riemann, Iris ^b   Stark, Martin ^b   Ehlers, Alexander ^b   Tchernook, Andrei ^c   Harzic, Ronan Le ^c   Koenig, Karsten ^b  

^a GRINTECH GmbH   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Germany)

^c JENLAB GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Confocal microendoscopy; Femto second lasers; Gradient index optical systems; GRIN optics; Multiphoton endoscopy

Indexed keywords

ENDOSCOPY; IMAGE QUALITY; LENSES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC BAND GAP; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; ULTRASHORT PULSES;

CONFOCAL MICROENDOSCOPY; GRADIENT INDEX OPTICAL SYSTEMS; MULTIPHOTON ENDOSCOPY; SCANNING SINGLE FIBERS;

GRADIENT INDEX OPTICS;

EID: 34247359964     PISSN: 16057422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.698831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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