One or more devices, systems, methods, and storage mediums for imaging and more particularly to minimally invasive medical devices, such as, but not limited to, spectrally encoded endoscopy (SEE), endoscopy, and/or other catheter-related apparatuses and systems, methods, and storage mediums for use with same, are provided herein. One or more devices, systems, methods and storage mediums may be for characterizing, examining and/or diagnosing, and/or measuring viscosity of, a sample or object in application(s) using an apparatus or system that includes, in one or more embodiments, an in-situ optics observation window or lens cleaning apparatus or system that provides a technique(s) for cleaning the medical device optic(s) without removing the medical device during a surgical procedure.