• DocumentCode
    1671175
  • Title

    Fiber-format picosecond source for coherent Raman microscopy

  • Author

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

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Appl. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present a fiber-based source for coherent Raman microscopy. Picosecond frequency conversion is achieved by normal dispersion four-wave mixing in photonic crystal fiber, yielding nanojoule pulses with 2800-3200 cm-1 frequency differences.
  • Keywords
    coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; holey fibres; light sources; multiwave mixing; optical frequency conversion; optical microscopy; photonic crystals; coherent Raman microscopy; fiber format picosecond source; four-wave mixing; normal dispersion; photonic crystal fiber; picosecond frequency conversion; Bandwidth; Dispersion; Four-wave mixing; Frequency conversion; Microscopy; Photonic crystals;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6326322