Delivery of ultrashort spatially focused pulses through a multimode fiber for two photon endoscopic imaging

Edgar E. Morales-Delgado; Ioannis N. Papadopoulos; Salma Farahi; Demetri Psaltis; Christophe Moser

doi:10.1117/12.2180332

11 June 2015 Delivery of ultrashort spatially focused pulses through a multimode fiber for two photon endoscopic imaging

Edgar E. Morales-Delgado, Ioannis N. Papadopoulos, Salma Farahi, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser

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Proceedings Volume 9531, Biophotonics South America; 95310A (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180332
Event: SPIE Biophotonics South America, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

Due to their high number of supported modes, multimode optical fibers carry large amount of spatio-temporal information. However, propagation of a light pulse through a multimode optical fiber suffers from spatial distortions due to superposition of the various exited modes and from time broadening due to modal dispersion. Here, we present a method based on digital phase conjugation to selectively excite specific optical fiber modes in a multimode fiber that follow similar optical paths as they travel through the fiber. In this way, they can be made to interfere constructively at the fiber output to generate an ultrashort spatially focused pulse. The excitation of a limited number of modes limits modal dispersion, allowing the transmission of an ultrashort pulse. We also show that the short spatially focused pulse can be scanned digitally without movable elements. We experimentally demonstrate that the pulse at the output of the multimode fiber generate a two-photon signal. We show delivery of a 1550 nm pulse with 500 fs duration, spatially focused to a spot size of 7 micrometers, through a 30 cm long, 200 micrometers core multimode step-index fiber. We show how this technique is applied to endoscopic two-photon imaging.

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Edgar E. Morales-Delgado, Ioannis N. Papadopoulos, Salma Farahi, Demetri Psaltis, and Christophe Moser "Delivery of ultrashort spatially focused pulses through a multimode fiber for two photon endoscopic imaging", Proc. SPIE 9531, Biophotonics South America, 95310A (11 June 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2180332

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