Title :
Optical time-stretch microscopy using few-mode fibers
Author :
Qiu, Yi ; Xu, Jingjiang ; Wong, Kenneth K Y ; Tsia, Kevin K.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
We demonstrate a cost-effective and efficient approach for realizing ultrafast time-stretch microscopy in 1μm using the standard telecommunication single-mode fibers (e.g. SMF28 and dispersion compensation fiber (DCF)) as few-mode fibers (FMFs).
Keywords :
optical fibre dispersion; optical microscopy; DCF; FMF; SMF28; dispersion compensation fiber; few-mode fibers; standard telecommunication single-mode fibers; ultrafast optical time-stretch microscopy; Microscopy; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber dispersion; Optical imaging; Optical microscopy; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Photonics Conference (IPC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Burlingame, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0731-5
DOI :
10.1109/IPCon.2012.6358460
