Applied Fiber Optics

Endoscope for stereoscopic vision is in great demand for medical field to diagnose and treat disease parts of patients more precisely. The authors are convinced that the silica based imagefiber is suitable for making a thinner fiberscope for streoscopic vision. The structure of the fiberscope and the quality of transmitted image have been investigated. It has been found that stereognosis depends on the magnification of eyepiece, distance between left and right objective lenses and the image quality between two transmitting systems. On the basis of this results, the ultrathin fiberscope with silica based imagefibers for stereoscopic vision have been developed. The diameter of fiberscope is only 2mm with two transmitting systems that consist of two imagefibers with 10000 pixels and lightguide for illumination and objective lenses. This fiberscope for stereoscopic vision can be used for the micro surgery, such as the laparoscopic surgery and the thoracoscopic surgery required for the thin diameter. 1