Advanced fiber soliton sources for nonlinear deep tissue imaging in biophotonics

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Wang, Ke ^a   Horton, Nicholas G ^b   Charan, Kriti ^b   Xu, Chris ^b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical optical imaging; biophotonics; fiber nonlinear optics; optical solitons; soliton self frequency shift (SSFS)

Indexed keywords

BIO PHOTONICS; BIOMEDICAL OPTICAL IMAGING; FIBER NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL SOLITON; SOLITON SELF-FREQUENCY SHIFT;

GEOMETRICAL OPTICS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL IMAGE STORAGE; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS; PHOTONICS; TISSUE;

SOLITONS;

EID: 84884544298     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2013.2276860     Document Type: Article

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