Alignment-free, all-spliced fiber laser source for CARS microscopy based on four-wave-mixing

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2012, Pages 21010-21018

  Baumgartl, Martin ^a   Gottschall, Thomas ^a   Abreu Afonso, Javier ^b   Díez, Antonio ^b   Meyer, Tobias ^a,c   Dietzek, Benjamin ^a,c   Rothhardt, Manfred ^c   Popp, Jürgen ^a,c   Limpert, Jens ^a   Tünnermann, Andreas ^a,d  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^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

ALIGNMENT; FIBER LASERS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PUMPING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ALL-FIBER LASERS; ANTI-STOKES; BIOLOGICAL TISSUES; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; EASE-OF-USE; FIBER LASER SOURCE; HIGH QUALITY; IN-FIBER; LASER LABORATORIES; LASER SCANNING MICROSCOPE; LASER SETUPS; LOW-COST LASERS; MAINTENANCE FREE; MICROSCOPE IMAGES; MULTI-MODAL; MULTI-PHOTON MICROSCOPY; PICOSECONDS; SPACE AND TIME; STOKES PULSE;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

LIPID;

ARTERY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMAN; LASER; METHODOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTON; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

ARTERIES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; LASERS; LIPIDS; MICROSCOPY; PHOTONS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84866237275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021010     Document Type: Article

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