Compact Fiber-Parametric Devices for Biophotonics Applications.

摘要

This project involved the simulation, development, testing, and application of several working fiber optical parametric oscillators. System simulation codes were developed in Matlab and used to predict and understand performance. Optical fiber and pulse characterization systems were assembled and used to study commercial microstructure fibers as well as noncommercial fibers provided by collaborators. Three versions of the light source were implemented: 1) a 100 femtosecond system operating near 1000 nm, 2) a picosecond system operating near 1000 nm, and 3) a picosecond system operating near 780 nm, A fourth 'directly-modulated mostly-fiber' version operating near 1000 nm is under construction. The systems were applied in a coherent anti- Stokes Raman scattering microscopy experiment to chemically resolve cell features.