论文信息 - Fibre-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 /spl mu/m

Fibre-based source of femtosecond pulses tunable from 1.0 to 1.3 /spl mu/m

Tunable short-pulse generation in the spectral range 1030–1330 nm with an all-fibre source is demonstrated. A compact system with a femtosecond Yb fibre oscillator and a photonic crystal fibre relies on the soliton self-frequency shift to cover the wavelengths of primary interest to biological/biomedical imaging deep in tissue. Continuous tuning of <100 fs pulses with energies in the range 0.1–0.5 nJ is accomplished by adjusting the pulse energy.

Andy Chong | F. W. Wise | Hyungsik Lim | J. Buckley

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