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Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

| EXPLORING THE INTERFACE OF LIGHT AND BIOMEDICINE

  • Editors: Andrew Dunn and Anthony Durkin
  • Vol. 7, Iss. 8 — Aug. 2, 2012

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Sensitivity enhancement of fiber-laser-based stimulated Raman scattering microscopy by collinear balanced detection technique

Keisuke Nose, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Tatsuya Kishi, Kazuhiko Sumimura, Norihiko Nishizawa, Kiichi Fukui, Yasuo Kanematsu, and Kazuyoshi Itoh  »View Author Affiliations


Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 13, pp. 13958-13965 (2012)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.013958


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Abstract

We propose the collinear balanced detection (CBD) technique for noise suppression in fiber laser (FL)-based stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy. This technique reduces the effect of laser intensity noise at a specific frequency by means of pulse splitting and recombination with a time delay difference. We experimentally confirm that CBD can suppress the intensity noise of second harmonic (SH) of Er-FL pulses by 13dB.The measured noise level including the thermal noise is higher by only ~1.4 dB than the shot noise limit. To demonstrate SRS imaging, we use 4-ps SH pulses and 3-ps Yb-FL pulses, which are synchronized subharmonically with a jitter of 227 fs. The effectiveness of the CBD technique is confirmed through SRS imaging of a cultured HeLa cell.

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OCIS Codes
(110.4280) Imaging systems : Noise in imaging systems
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(290.5910) Scattering : Scattering, stimulated Raman
(180.4315) Microscopy : Nonlinear microscopy

ToC Category:
Microscopy

History
Original Manuscript: April 11, 2012
Revised Manuscript: May 25, 2012
Manuscript Accepted: May 26, 2012
Published: June 8, 2012

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Vol. 7, Iss. 8 Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics

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Keisuke Nose, Yasuyuki Ozeki, Tatsuya Kishi, Kazuhiko Sumimura, Norihiko Nishizawa, Kiichi Fukui, Yasuo Kanematsu, and Kazuyoshi Itoh, "Sensitivity enhancement of fiber-laser-based stimulated Raman scattering microscopy by collinear balanced detection technique," Opt. Express 20, 13958-13965 (2012)
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/vjbo/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-20-13-13958


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