Nature Communications (Oct 2020)

Computational optical imaging with a photonic lantern

  • Debaditya Choudhury,
  • Duncan K. McNicholl,
  • Audrey Repetti,
  • Itandehui Gris-Sánchez,
  • Shuhui Li,
  • David B. Phillips,
  • Graeme Whyte,
  • Tim A. Birks,
  • Yves Wiaux,
  • Robert R. Thomson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18818-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, the authors demonstrate a route to high resolution microendoscopy using a multicore fibre with a photonic lantern. They show that distinct multimode patterns of light can be projected from the output of the lantern by individually exciting the single-mode MCF cores, whose patterns are highly stable to fibre movement.