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I think you wouldn't be collecting enough light in the first place - you need image intensifiers in there somewhere. Which most fiber optic magnifiers already seem to have. |
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I'm not sure I follow the geometry of the
optics clearly. I don't think the optical
path-length of current light
microscopes is a major limiting factor,
and they can already get very close to
the theoretical limit for light imaging
(ie, sub-wavelength). |
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Another factor to consider: if you are
talking about making very, very tiny
optical components, bear in mind that
large lenses (etc) can be made with a
much higher relative tolerance than
small ones. |
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If you're really interested, I work with
the guy who invented the modern
confocal microscope (and many other
types also) and could put it to him. |
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//Fiber optic cables "store" a very small image and pass it on as is.// |
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Hmmm, no. I think you think you can use a single fiber cable for the image. Think of most fiber optic cables like a mirrored tube. (most because single mode fiber is different) Light that goes in one end comes out the other, but the image is a bit scrambled each time it bounces off the walls and since fibers are so small, they bounce a lot. So to get an image, you would need one fiber for each pixel you wanted to use. |
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Unless I am reading this wrong and you want to replace lenses of a standard microscope with “thick” fiber cables bent into parabolic curves to act as parabolic mirrors which would probably have problems with light leakage if the angles were allowed to get too high. |
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How small (thin) can a fiber optic get?
Can you make very streight fiber optics, then maybe [MxwlBucnn]'s worry could be solved? |
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By all means, HB is there for spreading the word, no? |
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Maybe its not fiber optics after all, but rather very sensitive minute light receptors, which could be brought to close proximity with the subject. |
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//but rather very sensitive minute light receptors, which could be brought to close proximity with the subject.// |
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You mean like a scanner with <large number> dots per inch? |
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