Advanced microscopy possible through an optical fiber thinner than a human hair

https://www.adelaide.edu.au/newsroom/news/list/2024/12/03/microscopy-at-the-tip-of-a-hair-thin-optical-fibre

"images of previously inaccessible parts of human body, minimising associated tissue damage... correct for distortion from using thin fiber... super-resolution/ wide-field microscopy... light sheet microscopy: volumetric image built up imaging 1 plane at a time, or stimulated emission-depletion microscopy imagingl structures billionth of meter diameter... any pattern can be projected through optical fiber... pre-shape light... control beam's amplitude, phase polarisation at fiber's output...Bessel, Airy, Laguerre-Gaussian beams"