Re: re: fiber pinhole

> I think that the way it works is that a light ray will exit at the same
> axial angle that it entered, but the radial angle may change. This will
> probably cause some loss of sharpness (not an unxpected effect
> in pinhole work!) If the effect were totally random, fibers would
> not be able to transmit an image even with a lens system. Since
> they clearly can, I believe that the image transmitted by a single
> fiber is coherent enough to form a pinhole style image...

    My understanding is that the only way that fibers transmit an image is
    in a bundle of aligned fibers, where each fiber is a pixel, and not
    in a single fiber.
Received on Thu Apr 12 11:21:52 2001