High-power fiber lasers have experienced a dramatic development over the last decade. Further increasing the output power needs an upscaling of the fiber mode area, while maintaining a single-mode output. Here, we propose an all-solid anti-resonant fiber (ARF) structure, which ensures single mode operation in broadband by resonantly coupling high order modes (HOMs) into the cladding. A series of fibers with core sizes ranging from 40 to 100 μm are proposed exhibiting maximum mode area exceeding 5000 μm2. Numerical simulations show this resonant coupling scheme provides a HOMs suppression ratio more than 20 dB, while keeping the fundamental mode loss lower than 1 dB/m. The proposed structure also exhibits high tolerance for core index depression.
KEYWORDS: Tissues, In vivo imaging, Stereoscopy, Spatial resolution, Signal to noise ratio, Scattering media, Scattering, Ophthalmology, Microscopy, Liquids
We present a novel Brillouin fibre probe to achieve background-free remote mapping of micromechanical properties in tissue-mimicking hydrogel-water phantom. This Brillouin imaging system is designed using a low loss hollow core optical fibre and miniature objective for efficient light delivery and scattered light collection. The system efficiency and focusing power is comparable to free space Brillouin optical systems. This demonstration paves the way towards a wide range of biomedical and bioengineering applications where non-contact, label-free and damage-free mechanical imaging is required to retrieve in situ and in vivo microscopic viscoelastic properties of tissues and biomaterials.
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