Wide spectral range confocal microscope based on endlessly single-mode fiber

We report an endlessly single mode, fiber-optic confocal microscope, based on a large mode area photonic crystal fiber. The microscope confines a very broad spectral range of excitation and emission wavelengths to a single spatial mode in the fiber. Single-mode operation over an optical octave is fe...

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Main Authors: Hubbard, R. (Author), Ovchinnikov, Yu.B (Author), Hayes, J. (Author), Richardson, D.J (Author), Fu, Y.J (Author), Lin, S.D (Author), See, P. (Author), Sinclair, A.G (Author)
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Published: 2010-08.
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