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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jan 14.
Published in final edited form as: Appl Phys B. 2012 Jan 14;106(3):635–643. doi: 10.1007/s00340-011-4847-y

Table 1.

Types of fiber bundle optical imager and their parameters.

Types Type I Type II Type III
Parameters
Length (cm) 7.6 7.6 30.5
Size (total diameter) (mm) 3.2 3.2 0.5
Number of fibers ~3,012 ~50,419 ~10,000
Core spacing (size) (μm) ~50 (43) ~12 (9) ~4.5 (2.9)
NA 0.53 0.55 0.39
ncore 1.58 1.58 1.50
ncladding 1.49 1.48 1.446