• DocumentCode
    1769432
  • 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
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6988330