Fujikura manufacture a wide range of silica based coherent image fibres for medical and industrial endoscopy. Fujikura is one of the world's leading manufacturers of silica-based Image Fibre. Our Image Fibre range has excellent image carrying characteristics with low transmission loss and high mechanical durability, hence can be used in a variety of medical and industrial applications.

Each Image Fibre we manufacture can be tailored to meet the needs of our customer's individual application. Separate elements can also be assembled to create either a semi-manufactured product or even a complete fibrescope.

Features:

• Ultra-thin diameter
• High pixel density
• Flexibility
• High mechanical durability
• High chemical stability
• Excellent optical characteristics
• Long fibre available

Typical applications:

• Medical endoscopes
• Industrial fibre scopes & bore scopes
• Spectroscopy

Image fibre is a kind of multi-core fibre that consists of a large number of cores (pixels) set in a coherent configuration and common cladding. Each pixel can independently transmit light as with a conventional optical fibre.

An image projected on to one end of the image fibre is divided into many parts by each pixel and delivered to the other end of the fibre. Therefore the image can be transmitted as a whole over the entire length of the fibre.