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

Wide spectral range confocal microscope based on endlessly single-mode fiber
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 feasible. At a magnification of 10 and λ = 900 nm, its resolution was measured to be 1.0 µm (lateral) and 2.5 µm (axial). The microscope’s use is demonstrated by imaging single photons emitted by individual InAs quantum dots in a pillar microcavity.
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Hubbard, R., Ovchinnikov, Yu.B., Hayes, J., Richardson, D.J., Fu, Y.J., Lin, S.D., See, P. and Sinclair, A.G. (2010) Wide spectral range confocal microscope based on endlessly single-mode fiber. Optics Express, 18 (18), 18811-18819. (doi:10.1364/OE.18.018811).

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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 feasible. At a magnification of 10 and λ = 900 nm, its resolution was measured to be 1.0 µm (lateral) and 2.5 µm (axial). The microscope’s use is demonstrated by imaging single photons emitted by individual InAs quantum dots in a pillar microcavity.

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Published date: August 2010

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Local EPrints ID: 177045
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/177045
ISSN: 1094-4087
PURE UUID: 94c15d02-91a8-4da0-87ea-01a411e6eb85
ORCID for D.J. Richardson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-1058

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Date deposited: 15 Mar 2011 09:18
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:41

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Author: R. Hubbard
Author: Yu.B. Ovchinnikov
Author: J. Hayes
Author: D.J. Richardson ORCID iD
Author: Y.J. Fu
Author: S.D. Lin
Author: P. See
Author: A.G. Sinclair

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