title: Dispersion characteristics of acousto-optic deflector for scanning Gaussian laser beam of femtosecond pulses.
abstract: Pulse evolution after the acousto-optic deflector (AOD) and its dependence on AOD parameters is not clear, but is important to AOD applications in scanning microscopy. By considering the abnormal Bragg AOD as a combination of a dispersion media and a diffraction grating with Littrow structure, the dispersion characteristics of AOD when scanning Gaussian laser beam of femtosecond pulses were analyzed. Pulse width about AOD parameters was explored theoretically and verified with experiments. It is found that after exiting AOD, the pulse width of laser beam either merely decreases or first decreases and then increases before it finally goes steady with the propagation distance, depending on the interaction between the material dispersion and angular dispersion.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education-Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, P.R. China.
authors.forename: Derong
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Shaoqun
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zeng
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lv
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Runhua
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Wei R
authors.initials: WR
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Qingming
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Luo