All-fiber laser source for CARS microscopy based on fiber optical parametric frequency conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4484-4493

  Baumgartl, Martin ^a,b   Chemnitz, Mario ^a   Jauregui, Cesar ^a   Meyer, Tobias ^a,c   Dietzek, Benjamin ^a,c   Popp, Jürgen ^a,c   Limpert, Jens ^a,b   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,b,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ INSTITUTE JENA   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED OPTICS AND PRECISION ENGINEERING   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER LASERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; YTTERBIUM;

ACCESS FREQUENCY; ALL FIBER; ALL-FIBER LASERS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DEGENERATE FOUR-WAVE MIXING; FIBER-OPTICAL; IN-FIBER; LASER LABORATORIES; MAINTENANCE FREE; NARROW BANDS; PARAMETRIC FREQUENCY CONVERSION; SPACE AND TIME; STOKES PULSE; VIBRATIONAL IMAGING; YB FIBER LASERS;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

EID: 84857340447     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.004484     Document Type: Article

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