Well endoscopes have active lighting going one way and the target is close enough for reflective illumination
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I think your idea could possibly work if the tejescopecend had some boosting like with a photomultiplier tube of some sort
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obviously there would be an interpolation problem packing the cylinders at the ends but at the same time it doesn't seem to matter for endoscopes
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Yeah even 1 megapixel implies a 1000x1000 square bundle if each fiber is one pixel. Unless each fiber can be more than 1 pixel
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honestly i assumed "optical fibre" just meant a material that when bundled would faithfully conduct an image from one surface to another
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Apparently not. It transmits a Gaussian corresponding to the fiber’s’ain mode so it’s 1 pixel per strand if I’m understanding correctly
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Dunno. I’m now fairly confused. Digital is easy since it’s a light bitstream. This analog use case is tricky.
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yeah weird i mean i thought a property of optical fibre was it would conduct whatever you put through it faithfully to the other side
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I think I figured it out. Coherent fiber bundles can do what you think, but it’s 1 pixel/strand and they’re like 1mm cross section. I saw one device listed at 10k bundle (so 100x100). Apparently they’ve been increasingly replaced by ccd arrays at tip. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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