Title :
High-energy soliton pulse generation in a photonic crystal rod and its application to three-photon microscopy
Author :
Wang, Ke ; Kobat, Demirhan ; Horton, Nicholas ; Xu, Chris
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Appl. & Eng. Phys., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA
Abstract :
We demonstrate 67-nJ, 65-fs soliton pulse generation using a solid-core photonic crystal rod pumped by a compact fiber source, and its application to in vivo three-photon microscopy in mouse brain.
Keywords :
biomedical optical imaging; brain; multiphoton processes; optical microscopy; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical solitons; photonic crystals; compact fiber source; energy 67 nJ; high-energy soliton pulse generation; in vivo three-photon microscopy; mouse brain; solid-core photonic crystal rod; time 65 fs; Microscopy; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Solitons; Ultrafast optics;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1839-6
