Confocal Microscopy and Micromanipulation Based on a Femtosecond Fiber Laser with Ultrawide Tuning Range

Author

Träutlein, Daniel ; Ferrando-May, Elisa ; Adler, Florian ; Moutzouris, Konstantinos ; Leitenstorfer, Alfred ; Camenisch, Ulrike ; Nägeli, Hanspeter ; Jeromin, Andreas

Author_Institution

Konstanz Univ., Konstanz

fYear

2007

fDate

17-22 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

We present a highly versatile confocal microscopy setup based on a single mode-locked erbium-doped fiber laser. This system provides ultrashort pulses for nonlinear microscopy at 1550 nm (fundamental), from 1050 nm to 1400 nm (tailored supercontinuum) and at 775 nm (second harmonic). Pulse durations in the focal plane are 200 fs at 775 nm and less than 40 fs for the tunable infrared. Instead of using a photonic crystal fiber (PCF), a low-noise supercontinuum is generated in a conventional single-mode fiber.

Keywords

fibre lasers; micromanipulators; optical microscopy; confocal microscopy; erbium doped fiber laser; femtosecond fiber laser; low noise supercontinuum; micromanipulation; nonlinear microscopy; single mode locked; time 200 fs; ultrawide tuning range; wavelength 1050 nm to 1400 nm; wavelength 1550 nm; wavelength 775 nm; DNA; Electromagnetic wave absorption; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Fiber lasers; Laser tuning; Microscopy; Neurons; Photonics; Proteins; Tunable circuits and devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0931-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386658

Filename

4386658