• DocumentCode
    689252
  • Title

    Optical fiber vortices for STED nanoscopy

  • Author

    Yan, Lijun ; Auksorius, E. ; Bozinovic, N. ; Tearney, G.J. ; Ramachandran, Siddharth

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Boston Univ., Boston, MA, USA
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    9-14 June 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate the first proof of concept of a fiber-based STED nanoscopy illumination system. The fiber yields naturally co-aligned vortex (dark-spot size~198nm) and Gaussian beams (size~340nm), potentially enabling sub-30nm resolution imaging.
  • Keywords
    image resolution; laser beams; nanophotonics; optical fibres; optical microscopy; optical vortices; Gaussian beams; coaligned vortex; fiber-based STED nanoscopy illumination system; optical fiber vortices; sub30nm resolution imaging; Fluorescence; Laser beams; Lenses; Microscopy; Optical fiber polarization; Optical microscopy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6833635