The invention discloses a medium-expansion
optical fiber image transmission element and a preparation method thereof, and the preparation method comprises the steps: (1) enabling a core material glass rod and a
skin material
glass tube to be matched for monofilament drawing, and enabling the
diameter of a monofilament to be 3.12 + / -0.02 mm; (2) arranging the drawn monofilaments into a primary composite rod, and drawing the primary composite rod into a hexagonal primary multifilament with the opposite side size of 1.200 + / -0.025 mm; (3) arranging the drawn primary multifilaments into a secondary composite rod, and drawing the secondary composite rod into a hexagonal secondary multifilament with the opposite side size of 1.110 + / -0.025 mm; (4)
cutting and truncating the drawn secondary multifilaments, arranging the
cut secondary multifilaments into row plate sections, putting the row plate sections into a mold, and performing
hot melt pressing molding to obtain medium-expansion
optical fiber image transmission element blank plate sections; and (5) performing
rounding,
cutting, end face
grinding and
polishing and the like on the prepared medium-expansion
optical fiber image transmission element blank plate sections to prepare a blank, and performing heating torsion forming or stretching forming on the blank to obtain a medium-expansion optical
fiber image
inverter or a medium-expansion optical
fiber light cone. The medium-expansion optical
fiber image transmission element can be applied to a low-light-level
image intensifier.