2016/04/11 by Kun Chen, Tao Wu, Haoyun Wei +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies #Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy #Coherent spectroscopy #Materials science #Microscopy #Molecular physics #Nonlinear system #Optical Coherence Tomography Applications #Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Raman scattering #Raman spectroscopy #Soliton #Spectroscopy #Spectroscopy Techniques in Biomedical and Chemical Research #X-ray Raman scattering #msc:78A10 #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1364/ol.41.002628
7 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2016/04/11 · openalex publication_date 2016/05/26 · arxiv updated 2016/05/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We propose an all-fiber-generated, dual-soliton, Stokes-based scheme for background-free coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) under the spectral focusing mechanism. Owing to the strong birefringence and high nonlinearity of a polarization-maintaining PCF (PM-PCF), two soliton pulses can be simultaneously emitted along different eigenpolarization axes and both serve as Stokes pulses, while allowing feasible tunability of frequency distance and temporal interval between them. This proposed scheme, based on an all-fiber light source, exploits a unique combination of slight frequency-shift temporal walk-off of these two solitons to achieve efficient suppression of the nonresonant background and beat the inaccessibility and complexity of the excitation source. Capability is experimentally demonstrated by background-free CARS spectroscopy and unambiguous CARS microscopy in the fingerprint region.