Patent ID: 7817267

Claim:
A system for multispectral confocal mapping of a sample, comprising: an optical fiber having a first end and a second end, the first end receiving input narrowband optical radiation, the second end having an aperture providing a confocal pinhole, a confocal scanner being free-space coupled to said aperture, said scanner responsive to said narrow band optical input radiation from said optical fiber and operative to scan the sample and provide output signals for each of a plurality of points therein, wherein said optical fiber receives the output signals at said aperture and propagates said output signals to said first end; a plurality of reflectors responsive to a series of modulated optical pulses corresponding to said output signals and operative to provide a temporal sequence of wavelength selective reflections of each of the modulated optical pulses; and a detector optically coupled to receive the temporal sequence of wavelength selective reflections and provide an output indicative of the relative intensity of each point in the scanned sample.