Data for "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers"
The data supporting the results presented in the paper "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers".
This body of work is designed to provide an indication of the imaging performance of a novel, high resolution imaging coherent fibre bundle fabricated in the University of Bath's Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials' facilities.
Traditionally, the imaging fibres such as those used in medical endoscopes consist of solid doped and undoped silica glass. The novelty of our design is in having the cladding that is comprised of air-filled silica capillaries, achieving a cladding index close to that of air. This increase in index contrast with the cores (still solid doped silica) provides a higher numerical aperture waveguide. As a result, the light is better confined to the cores, and higher resolution, or a wider operational bandwidth, can be achieved.
Cite this dataset as:
Wood, H.,
Harrington, K.,
Knight, J.,
Birks, T.,
Stone, J.,
2018.
Data for "High resolution air-clad imaging fibers".
Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00554.
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Creators
Harry Wood
University of Bath
Kerrianne Harrington
University of Bath
Jonathan Knight
University of Bath
Timothy Birks
University of Bath
James Stone
University of Bath
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University of Bath
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Coverage
Temporal coverage:
From 2017 to 2018
Time period:
2017 to 2018
Documentation
Data collection method:
For the images: Supercontinuum light sources were used as the excitation source throughout all visible and IR imaging experiments. Lenses with NA greater than 0.5 were used for all imaging experiments. A silicon camera and bandpass filters were used to obtain 500-1000 nm wavelength images. a short wave infra-red camera was used from 1000-1600 nm wavelength. For the spreadsheet data: This is loss data that was obtained using the cutback method by coupling a 633 nm helium neon gas laser into a group of 100 or more cores of the imaging fibre.
Funders
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000266
EPSRC IRC Proteus: Multiplexed 'Touch and Tell' Optical Molecular Sensing and Imaging
EP/K03197X/1
Publication details
Publication date: 27 September 2018
by: University of Bath
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-00554
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/554
Related papers and books
Wood, H. A. C., Harrington, K., Birks, T. A., Knight, J. C., and Stone, J. M., 2018. High-resolution air-clad imaging fibers. Optics Letters, 43(21), 5311. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.43.005311.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Harry Wood
Faculty of Science
Physics
