METHOD FOR SINGLE-FIBER MICROSCOPY USING INTENSITY-PATTERN SAMPLING AND OPTIMIZATION-BASED RECONSTRUCTION

摘要

A method for imaging an object with resolution that exceeds the number of spatial modes per polarization in a multimode fiber is disclosed. In some embodiments, the object is interrogated with a plurality of non-spot-sized intensity patterns and the optical power reflected by the object is detected for each intensity pattern. The plurality of optical power values is then used in a non-local reconstruction based on an optimization approach to reconstruct an image of the object, where the image has resolution up to four times greater than provided by prior-art multimode fiber-based imaging methods.