Advanced fiber soliton sources for nonlinear deep tissue imaging in biophotonics

K Wang, NG Horton, K Charan… - IEEE Journal of Selected …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Optical imaging plays a major role in both basic biological research and clinical diagnostics,
providing noninvasive or minimally invasive microscopic imaging capability to investigate …

Nonlinear effects in fiber lasers and amplifiers: review of pulse generation at 1550–1870 nm wavelength range

D Galiakhmetova - Advances in Physics: X, 2025 - Taylor & Francis
Fiber lasers, operating in the NIR-III spectral region (1550–1870 nm), have attracted the
attention of scientists due to their widespread applications and potential advancement of …

Tunable high-energy soliton pulse generation from a large-mode-area fiber and its application to third harmonic generation microscopy

K Wang, C Xu - Applied physics letters, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate high-energy soliton generation from 1580 nm to 2130 nm by using soliton
self-frequency shift in a large-mode-area fiber, pumped by a femtosecond fiber laser source …

High-power tunable Raman soliton generation in large core diameter passive fibers via a precise fundamental-mode matching technique

L Yang, X Wang, C Yao, Z Xu, G Ren, K Li, P Li - Optics Express, 2024 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate tunable high-power, high-energy Raman solitons with the range of 1.9-2.3
µm in large mode area (LMA) fibers and an optimized fundamental-mode matching …

Three-color femtosecond source for simultaneous excitation of three fluorescent proteins in two-photon fluorescence microscopy

K Wang, TM Liu, J Wu, NG Horton, CP Lin… - Biomedical optics …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate a fiber-based, three-color femtosecond source for simultaneous imaging of
three fluorescent proteins (FPs) using two-photon fluorescence microscopy (2PM). The three …

Time-domain multimode dispersion measurement<? A3B2 show [pmg: line-break justify=" yes"/]?> in a higher-order-mode fiber

J Cheng, MEV Pedersen, K Wang, C Xu… - Optics letters, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present a new multimode dispersion measurement technique based on the time-of-flight
method. The modal delay and group velocity dispersion of all excited modes in a few-mode …

Visualizing astrocytes in the deep mouse brain in vivo

H Liu, J Wang, Z Zhuang, J He, W Wen… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes play a key role in the central nervous system. However, methods of visualizing
astrocytes in the deep brain in vivo have been lacking. 3‐photon fluorescence imaging of …

Generation of picosecond laser pulses at 1030 nm with gigahertz range continuously tunable repetition rate

A Aubourg, J Lhermite, S Hocquet, E Cormier… - Optics Letters, 2015 - opg.optica.org
We report on a watt range laser system generating picosecond pulses using electro-optical
modulation of a 1030 nm single frequency low noise laser diode. Its repetition rate is …

Synchronized time-lens source for coherent Raman scattering microscopy

K Wang, C Xu - Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy, 2022 - Elsevier
Coherent Raman scattering (CRS) microscopy requires multicolor, synchronized
picosecond laser sources to excite molecular vibration for imaging. Various laser sources …

High-efficiency self-frequency-shifted solitons generation in an erbium-doped fiber laser system

X Li, P Luo, MY He, Q Hao - Optics & Laser Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
We demonstrate here high-efficiency self-frequency-shifted soliton generation in standard
single-mode fiber (SMF). Pulse with 80.96-MHz repetition rate passing through a length of …