Title :
Dispersion-cancelled biological imaging and quantum nonlinear optics with shaped light pulses
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. & Astron., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Abstract :
I will introduce chirped-pulse interferometry and show how it can be applied to dispersion-cancelled optical coherence tomography. I will describe our recent results using chirped laser and single-photon pulses for compression of single photon spectra.
Keywords :
biological techniques; laser beam applications; light interferometry; nonlinear optics; optical pulse compression; optical pulse shaping; optical tomography; quantum optics; chirped laser; chirped-pulse interferometry; dispersion-cancelled biological imaging; dispersion-cancelled optical coherence tomography; quantum nonlinear optics; shaped light pulses; single photon spectra compression; single-photon pulse; Coherence; Nonlinear optics; Optical imaging; Optical interferometry; Photonics; Tomography; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
