Publication: Fiber Four-Wave Mixing Source for Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering Microscopy
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2012
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Lefrancois, Simon, Dan Fu, Gary R. Holtom, Lingjie Kong, William J. Wadsworth, Patrick Schneider, Robert Herda, Armin Zach, X. Sunney Xie, and Frank W. Wise. 2012. Fiber four-wave mixing source for coherent anti-strokes Raman scattering microscopy. Optics Letters 37(10): 1652-54.
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We present a fiber-format picosecond light source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. Pulses from an Yb-doped fiber amplifier are frequency-converted by four-wave mixing in normal dispersion photonic crystal fiber to produce a synchronized two-color picosecond pulse train. We show that seeding the four-wave mixing process overcomes the deleterious effects of group-velocity mismatch and allows efficient conversion into narrow frequency bands. The source generates more than 160 mW of nearly-transform-limited pulses tunable from 775 to 815 nm. High-quality coherent Raman images of animal tissues and cells acquired with this source are presented.
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