Flexible mid-IR fiber bundle for thermal imaging of inaccessible areas
Flexible mid-IR fiber bundle for thermal imaging of inaccessible areas
We present a flexible coherent Mid-Infrared (Mid-IR) fiber bundle for thermal imaging made of 1200 Ge30As13Se32Te25 glass cores embedded in a Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) polymer cladding. The high index contrast between the chalcogenide glass and the polymer cladding helps minimizing inter-pixel cross-talk, while the low Young’s modulus of the polymer cladding gives the bundle good flexibility despite its millimeter scale outer diameter. The delivery of high contrast and high spatial resolution thermal images of a human hand through a 62.5 cm long bundle indicates its excellent imaging potential.
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Ventura, Andrea
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22 July 2019
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Ventura, Andrea, Ben Slimen, Fedia, Lousteau, Joris, White, Nicholas, Masoudi, Ali, Janicek, Petr and Poletti, Francesco
(2019)
Flexible mid-IR fiber bundle for thermal imaging of inaccessible areas.
Optics Express, 27 (15), .
(doi:10.1364/OE.27.020259).
Abstract
We present a flexible coherent Mid-Infrared (Mid-IR) fiber bundle for thermal imaging made of 1200 Ge30As13Se32Te25 glass cores embedded in a Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (FEP) polymer cladding. The high index contrast between the chalcogenide glass and the polymer cladding helps minimizing inter-pixel cross-talk, while the low Young’s modulus of the polymer cladding gives the bundle good flexibility despite its millimeter scale outer diameter. The delivery of high contrast and high spatial resolution thermal images of a human hand through a 62.5 cm long bundle indicates its excellent imaging potential.
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In preparation date: 2019
Accepted/In Press date: 24 May 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 9 July 2019
Published date: 22 July 2019
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Local EPrints ID: 433397
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/433397
ISSN: 1094-4087
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