Abstract
Recently, a long low-loss silica image fiber has been developed by using the same fabrication technology as for optical fibers for communication.1 Fiberscopes, using the silica image fibers as Image transmission media, are now widely used in various kinds of visual monitoring in Industrial fields.2 However, the conventional fabrication method of Image fibers called the multiple-fiber method has difficulty in dealing with more than ~100,000 picture elements. In this paper we describe a new multiple-fiber method which makes It possible to fabricate low-loss high-resolution Image fibers with hundreds of thousands of picture elements
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