Towards a tunable fiber source for coherent Raman imaging

Simon Lefrancois; Dan Fu; Gary Holtom; Lingjie Kong; William Wadsworth; Patrick Schneider; Robert Herda; Armin Zach; X. Sunney Xie; Frank W. Wise

doi:10.1117/12.920187

9 February 2012 Towards a tunable fiber source for coherent Raman imaging

Simon Lefrancois, Dan Fu, Gary Holtom, Lingjie Kong, William Wadsworth, Patrick Schneider, Robert Herda, Armin Zach, X. Sunney Xie, Frank W. Wise

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 8226, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XII; 822620 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920187
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2012, San Francisco, California, United States

Abstract

We demonstrate a fiber-based two-color source of picosecond pulses for coherent Raman scattering (CRS) microscopy. An Yb-doped fiber laser combined with a divided-pulse amplifier produce up to 3 W of power tunable from 1030 nm to 1040 nm. A normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber is used to blue-shift the pulses through seeded four-wave mixing. Pulses with up to 150 mW of average power are produced, tunable between 770 nm and 800 nm. Imaging of animal tissue and cells is demonstrated.

Citation Download Citation

Simon Lefrancois, Dan Fu, Gary Holtom, Lingjie Kong, William Wadsworth, Patrick Schneider, Robert Herda, Armin Zach, X. Sunney Xie, and Frank W. Wise "Towards a tunable fiber source for coherent Raman imaging", Proc. SPIE 8226, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XII, 822620 (9 February 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920187

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

INSTITUTIONAL
Select your institution to access the SPIE Digital Library.

SELECT YOUR INSTITUTION

PERSONAL
Sign in with your SPIE account to access your personal subscriptions or to use specific features such as save to my library, sign up for alerts, save searches, etc.

PERSONAL SIGN IN

No SPIE Account? Create one

PURCHASE THIS CONTENT

SUBSCRIBE TO DIGITAL LIBRARY

50 downloads per 1-year subscription

Members: $195

Non-members: $335 ADD TO CART

25 downloads per 1 - year subscription

Members: $145

Non-members: $250 ADD TO CART

PURCHASE SINGLE ARTICLE

Includes PDF, HTML & Video, when available