Multistage Image Converter Tube Employing Fiber Optics Faceplates

Fiber Optics

Dramatic improvements in the development of low-loss materials for optical fibers are responsible for the commercial viability of fiber-optic communications. Corning Incorporated pioneered the development and manufacture of ultra-low-loss glass fibers. C 0 R N I N G 272 Fundamentals of Photonics

Fiber Optics

Holographic evaluation of fiber optics image transfer characteristics.

A fiber optics image-transferring element is nonisoplanatic over a surface region containing only a few fundamental resolution elements, and no meaningful or consistent evaluation of a fiber optics image can be made by examining such a nonisoplanatic region. A holographic scheme offers a solution to the problem of fiber optics image evaluation based upon examination of a nonisoplanatic region. ...

Fiber Fourier optics.

The Fourier transform of a coherent optical image can be evaluated physically by use of a single lens plus free-space propagation, thereby providing the basis for the field of Fourier optics. I point out that one can similarly evaluate the discrete Fourier transform of a sampled or pixelated optical array physically by passing the discrete array amplitudes through a network of single-mode fiber...

Infrared Fiber Optics

Infrared (IR) optical fibers may be defined as fiber optics transmitting radiation with wavelengths greater than approximately 2 μm. The first IR fibers were fabricated in the mid-1960’s from chalcogenide glasses such as arsenic trisulfide with losses in excess of 10 dB/m. During the mid-1970’s, the interest in developing an efficient and reliable IR fiber for short-haul applications increased ...