Apparatus and methods for forming images and for optical demulti

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1984-01-06

1986-07-22

Lieberman, Eli

Multiplex communications

Wide area network

Packet switching

350 9610, 350 9624, 350 9625, 350330, 350331R, 350334, 350342, 370 1, 358212, 358225, 358226, 358901, 340752, 340763, 340765, G02B 608, G02B 2710, H04N 5225

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ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for illuminating and forming an image of a specimen has a transparent specimen-supporting surface and a fiber-optic bundle divided into illumination fibers which illuminate the surface and emission fibers which are held in the same relative spatial orientation throughout their length so that they produce an image of a specimen on the surface. This image may be analyzed by an optical demultiplexer using a light gate in which groups of input pixels are associated with a single output pixel, the light gate being switchable between various light-transmission states in each of which only one of the input pixels in each groups is allowed to transmit to the output pixel, so that the light gate effectively divides a single image comprising a large number of pixels into a series of images each containing fewer pixels. This enables a single photodetector chip to produce electronic signals representing an image having a much larger number of pixels than the number of separate photodetectors on the chip.

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