Title :
A high power directly diode pumped Ti:sapphire laser with synchronized Yb-fiber amplifier for nonlinear optical microscopy and optical coherence tomography
Author :
Verhoef, Anton ; Fernandez, Alicia ; Kamali, Tschackad ; Hansen, A.K. ; Jensen, O.B. ; Andersen, P.E. ; Sumpf, Bernd ; Erbert, Gotz ; Petersen, P.M. ; Baltuska, A. ; Drexler, Wolfgang ; Unterhuber, Angelika
Author_Institution :
Photonics Inst., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria
Abstract :
A simple scheme of a compact femtosecond Ti:sapphire laser with synchronized Yb-fiber amplifier pumped by a powerful single tapered diode laser implemented in a combined coherent Anti-Stokes Raman and optical coherence tomography platform is presented.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; coherent antiStokes Raman scattering; laser applications in medicine; optical fibre amplifiers; optical microscopy; optical pumping; optical tomography; sapphire; solid lasers; titanium; ytterbium; Al2O3:Ti; Ti:sapphire laser; coherent antiStokes Raman tomography; high power directly diode pumping; nonlinear optical microscopy; optical coherence tomography; synchronized Yb-fiber amplifier; Biomedical optical imaging; Laser excitation; Optical fiber amplifiers; Pump lasers; Semiconductor lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
