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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2017
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroyoshi Yajima, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/07 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); G02B 6/12 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/07 (2013.01); A61B 1/00006 (2013.01); A61B 1/00009 (2013.01); A61B 1/00096 (2013.01); A61B 1/00105 (2013.01); A61B 1/00126 (2013.01); A61B 1/00165 (2013.01); A61B 1/00188 (2013.01); A61B 1/042 (2013.01); A61B 1/0638 (2013.01); A61B 1/0669 (2013.01); A61B 1/00172 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an optical fiber scanner capable of generating an image with excellent image quality, which displaces an emission end of an optical fiber by means of an optical scanning actuator and scans light emitted from the optical fiber, in which the optical fiber 31 includes a photonic crystal fiber at least in a propagation path of the light leading to the optical scanning actuator.