title: Picosecond anti-Stokes generation in a photonic-crystal fiber for interferometric CARS microscopy.
abstract: We generate tunable picosecond anti-Stokes pulses by four-wave mixing of two picosecond pump and Stokes pulse trains in a photonic-crystal fiber. The visible, spectrally narrow anti-Stokes pulses with shifts over 150 nm are generated without generating other spectral features. As a demonstration, we employ the generated anti-Stokes pulses as reference pulses in an interferometric coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging experiment showing that interpulse coherence among the pump, Stokes and anti-Stokes beams is retained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark. esbenra@phys.au.dk
authors.forename: Esben Ravn
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Andresen
authors.forename: Søren Rud
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Keiding
authors.forename: Eric Olaf
authors.initials: EO
authors.lastname: Potma
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007834:Lasers; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman / Q000295:instrumentation*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000295:instrumentation*