Title :
Highly compact, low-noise all-solid-state laser system for stimulated Raman scattering microscopy
Author :
Steinle, Tobias ; Kumar, Vikas ; Steinmann, Andy ; Marangoni, Marco ; Cerullo, Giulio ; Giessen, Harald
Author_Institution :
4th Phys. Inst., Univ. of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Abstract :
We present a simple, compact and very robust laser source for low-noise stimulated Raman scattering microscopy using a single-stage optical parametric amplifier seeded with tunable cw radiation from an external-cavity diode laser.
Keywords :
high-speed optical techniques; laser cavity resonators; laser noise; laser tuning; light sources; optical microscopy; optical parametric amplifiers; solid lasers; stimulated Raman scattering; external-cavity diode laser; highly compact all-solid-state laser system; low-noise all-solid-state laser system; low-noise stimulated Raman scattering microscopy; single-stage optical parametric amplifier; tunable cw radiation; Microscopy; Nonlinear optics; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical pulses; Optical pumping; Oscillators; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
