An endoscope includes an illumination source for generating a coherent laser illumination beam； an optical sensor； a multicore fiber comprising: at least one core for transferring the illumination beam from the illumination source through said at least one core to a distal end of the fiber, for illumination of a surface to be inspected； and a plurality of cores for transferring light reflected off the surface to the optical sensor； a temporal modulation sequencer for separating a specular image of the illumination beam from an image of the surface； and a processor, for processing sensed data from the optical sensor to generate the image of the surface.
