Fiber-based ultrashort pulse delivery for nonlinear imaging using high-energy solitons

Sarah Saint-Jalm; Esben R. Andresen; Patrick Ferrand; Abdelkrim Bendahmane; Arnaud Mussot; Olivier Vanvincq; Géraud Bouwmans; Alexandre Kudlinski; Hervé Rigneault

doi:10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.086021

26 August 2014 Fiber-based ultrashort pulse delivery for nonlinear imaging using high-energy solitons

Sarah Saint-Jalm, Esben R. Andresen, Patrick Ferrand, Abdelkrim Bendahmane, Arnaud Mussot, Olivier Vanvincq, Géraud Bouwmans, Alexandre Kudlinski, Hervé Rigneault

Author Affiliations +

Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 19, Issue 8, 086021 (August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.086021

Abstract

We present an approach for fiber delivery of femtosecond pulses relying on pulse breakup and soliton self-frequency shift in a custom-made solid-core photonic bandgap fiber. In this scheme, the fiber properties themselves ensure that a powerful Fourier-transform-limited pulse is emitted at the fiber output, hence doing away with the need for complex precompensation and enabling tunability of the excitation. We report high-energy soliton excitation for two-photon fluorescence microspectroscopy over a 100-nm range and multimodal nonlinear imaging on biological samples.

Citation Download Citation

Sarah Saint-Jalm, Esben R. Andresen, Patrick Ferrand, Abdelkrim Bendahmane, Arnaud Mussot, Olivier Vanvincq, Géraud Bouwmans, Alexandre Kudlinski, and Hervé Rigneault "Fiber-based ultrashort pulse delivery for nonlinear imaging using high-energy solitons," Journal of Biomedical Optics 19(8), 086021 (26 August 2014). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JBO.19.8.086021

Published: 26 August 2014

ACCESS THE FULL ARTICLE

JOURNAL ARTICLE
6 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY