Delivery of nanojoule femtosecond pulses through large-core microstructured fibers
Optics Letters, Vol. 27, Issue 17, pp. 1513-1515 (2002)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OL.27.001513
Acrobat PDF (155 KB)
Abstract
We investigate femtosecond-pulse propagation through large-core microstructured fibers. Although these fibers are highly multimode, excitation of the fundamental mode is readily achieved, and coupling to higher-order modes is weak even when the fiber is bent or twisted. For prechirped input pulses with energies as large as 3 nJ, pulses as short as 140 fs were produced at the output of the fiber. Such a system could prove to be extremely useful for applications such as in vivo multiphoton microscopy and endoscopy that require delivery of femtosecond pulses and collection of fluorescence.
© 2002 Optical Society of America
[Optical Society of America ]
OCIS Codes
(060.2300) Fiber optics and optical communications : Fiber measurements
(060.5530) Fiber optics and optical communications : Pulse propagation and temporal solitons
(320.5550) Ultrafast optics : Pulses
(320.7100) Ultrafast optics : Ultrafast measurements
Citation
D. G. Ouzounov, K. D. Moll, M. A. Foster, W. R. Zipfel, W. W. Webb, and Alexander L. Gaeta, "Delivery of nanojoule femtosecond pulses through large-core microstructured fibers," Opt. Lett. 27, 1513-1515 (2002)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/ol/abstract.cfm?URI=ol-27-17-1513
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Citation lists with outbound citation links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Cited by links are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
You do not have subscription access to this journal. Article level metrics are available to subscribers only. You may subscribe either as an OSA member, or as an authorized user of your institution.
Contact your librarian or system administrator
or
Log in to access OSA Member Subscription
Related Journal Articles 
- Full-field characterization of femtosecond pulses by spectrum and cross-correlation measurements: addenda (OL)
- Collinear type II second-harmonic-generation frequency-resolved optical gating for the characterization of sub-10-fs optical pulses (OL)
- Observation of chirped soliton dynamics at λ = 1.55 µm in a single-mode optical fiber with frequency-resolved optical gating (OL)
- Distortion-free delivery of nanojoule femtosecond pulses from a Ti:sapphire laser through a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (OL)
- Cross-correlation frequency-resolved optical gating for studying ultrashort-pulse nonlinear dynamics in arbitrary fibers (AO)
Related Conference Papers
- Vectorial Pulsed Bessel Beams in Periodic Layered Media
- Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber Studied with Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating
- Vectorial Pulsed Bessel Beams in Periodic Layered Media
- Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Dispersion-Decreasing Fiber Studied with Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating
- Pulse-front tilt caused by spatial and temporal chirp
« Previous Article | Next Article »
OSA is a member of 