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

被引：2

作者：

Hubbard, R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Ovchinnikov, Yu. B. ^{[1
]}

Hayes, J. ^{[3
]}

Richardson, D. J. ^{[3
]}

Fu, Y. J. ^{[4
]}

Lin, S. D. ^{[4
]}

See, P. ^{[1
]}

Sinclair, A. G. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Natl Phys Lab, Teddington TW11 0LW, Middx, England

[2] Univ London Imperial Coll Sci Technol & Med, Blackett Lab, London SW7 2BW, England

[3] Univ Southampton, Optoelect Res Ctr, Southampton S017 1BJ, Hants, England

[4] Natl Chiao Tung Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

来源：

OPTICS EXPRESS | 2010年 / 18卷 / 18期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

关键词：

PHOTON GENERATION; QUANTUM DOTS; LARGE-CORE; LIGHT; RAMAN;

D O I：

10.1364/OE.18.018811

中图分类号：

O43 [光学];

学科分类号：

070207 ; 0803 ;

摘要：

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 lambda = 900 nm, its resolution was measured to be 1.0 mu m (lateral) and 2.5 mu m (axial). The microscope's use is demonstrated by imaging single photons emitted by individual InAs quantum dots in a pillar microcavity. (C) 2010 Optical Society of America

引用

页码：18811 / 18819

页数：9

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