Tapered fiber optic sensors for laser medicine

Nikolay A. Denisov; Sergiy M. Dets; Igor Kravchenko

doi:10.1117/12.259958

26 November 1996 Tapered fiber optic sensors for laser medicine

Nikolay A. Denisov, Sergiy M. Dets, Igor Kravchenko

Proceedings Volume 2928, Biomedical Systems and Technologies; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.259958
Event: BiOS Europe '96, 1996, Vienna, Austria

Abstract

Biomedical science and practical medicine need special techniques for reliable real-time remote detection and determination information from human tissue. Most applications of these techniques in interior organs are based on optical fibers which should not only be able to deliver excitation light with minimal loss but provide effective light gathering from tissue being under the test. As emitted from tissue optical signal is often weak especially if autofluorescence spectroscopy is chosen for diagnostics, an efficient collection by fiber optics probe became essential. The main part of the proposed fiber optics probes is a specially designed tapered tip with one flat surface and another spherical one. This tip operates as a collector, transmitter and coupler to deliver light to the tissue and backward to the detector simultaneously. To find geometrical dimensions of tips optimized for these purposes calculating formulas have been adduced. These optimized tips could collect fluorescence signal from biological sites in wide angular aperture region and could transport light without leakage on tapered surface. When delivery fibers are placed at the focal plane of tip spherical surface an efficient optical coupling with them is achieved. Ray tracing of the tapered tips has been performed on sapphire and quartz tip materials in air and in saline to determine the best sensor design.

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Nikolay A. Denisov, Sergiy M. Dets, and Igor Kravchenko "Tapered fiber optic sensors for laser medicine", Proc. SPIE 2928, Biomedical Systems and Technologies, (26 November 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.259958

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