Patent ID: 8903475

Claim:
An imaging system providing endoillumination and OCT probe functionalities via a single optical fiber, the system comprising: a handpiece having a probe tip disposed at an end thereof; disposed within the handpiece, a plurality of distinct parallel waveguides provided within a single optical fiber terminating within the probe tip; and a plurality of light sources, a first one of the light sources being optically coupled only to a first one of the waveguides of the fiber at a proximal end thereof and a second one of the light sources being optically coupled only to a second one of the waveguides of the fiber at the proximal end, light from the first light source being propagated from the proximal end to the probe tip in the first waveguide and light from the second light source being propagated from the proximal end to the probe tip in the second waveguide such that, at the probe tip, a plurality of different probe functionalities are provided; and driver hardware for controlling the endoillumination and OCT probe functionalities, wherein the first and second light sources provide the endoillumination and OCT probe functionalities, respectively.