Faced with the relatively high cost of the ball lenses used to focus light from an LED into the end of the fiber he started looking outside the box. He discovered that spherical glass anti-bumping ...

including optical tweezers and other immersion applications where other types of fiber lenses do not work." Although there are many ways to integrate optical components with optical fibers ...

However, obtaining super-resolution images has been limited due to the difficulty of focusing light into a small, single point with a lens ... a near-field optical fiber for the first time.

In order to increase the coupling efficiency of regular glass optical fibers (GOF), HarzOptics augments glass fibers with specialized fiber lenses (also called fiber tapers). The average coupling ...

The 3D TV camera’s lens array consists of two dimensionally aligned fiber lenses. Each fiber lens is cylindrical. The refractive index is highest at its center of each fiber and becomes lower ...