Widely tuneable fiber optical parametric amplifier for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26583-26595

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

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF PHOTONIC TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING; COHERENT ANTI-STOKES RAMAN SCATTERING MICROSCOPY; FIBER OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; FOUR-WAVE-MIXING PROCESS; HIGH SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; LARGE TUNING RANGE; LASER SYSTEMS; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PULSE TRAIN; SPECTROMICROSCOPY; TWO-COLOR; VIBRATIONAL MODES; WIDELY TUNABLE; ZERO-DISPERSION WAVELENGTH;

FIBER LASERS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PUMPING (LASER); RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

COHERENT SCATTERING;

GLASS FIBER;

AMPLIFIER; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; LASER; MICROSCOPY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY;

AMPLIFIERS, ELECTRONIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; LASERS; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 84870576328     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026583     Document Type: Conference Paper

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