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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Protoc. 2014 May 1;9(6):1213–1228. doi: 10.1038/nprot.2014.080

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Procedures to make a hybrid optical fiber probe. (a) A fiber optic stripper is used to remove the jacket and acrylic coating of a single-mode fiber. (b) A single pull of the fiber stripper can remove both the jacket and coating. (c) The stripped single-mode fiber is placed on a high-precision fiber cleaver to create a flat-cleaved end. (d) A perfectly round bright spot is formed by the blue light coming out of a single-mode fiber that has been stripped and cleaved through the steps shown in a–c. (e) The multimode and single-mode fibers are glued together. (f) A metal tube is added to reinforce the probe.