Compact, Noncontact Fiber-Optic Probe for Diagnosis of Eye Diseases

A compact fiber-optic probe has been found to be useful for noncontact diagnosis of interior parts of eyes. The probe was originally developed for performing dynamic-light-scattering measurements to determine transport properties of submicron particles suspended in fluids in microgravity, and is an improved version of the probes described in "Dynamic Light Scattering With Improved Fiber-Optic Probes (LEW-15461)" NASA Tech Briefs, Vol. 19, No. 9 (September 1995), page 86.