%0 Journal Article %1 SteinleKumar16 %A Steinle, Tobias %A Kumar, Vikas %A Floess, Moritz %A Steinmann, Andy %A Marangoni, Marco %A Koch, Claudia %A Wege, Christina %A Cerullo, Giulio %A Giessen, Harald %D 2016 %I Nature Publishing Group %J Light: Science & Applications %K myown %N 10 %P e16149 %R 10.1038/lsa.2016.149 %T Synchronization-free all-solid-state laser system for stimulated Raman scattering microscopy %U https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.149 %V 5 %X We introduce an extremely simple and highly stable system for stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy. An 8-W, 450-fs Yb:KGW bulk oscillator with 41 MHz repetition rate pumps an optical parametric amplifier, which is seeded by a cw tunable external cavity diode laser. The output radiation is frequency doubled in a long PPLN crystal and generates 1.5-ps long narrowband pump pulses that are tunable between 760 and 820 nm with >50 mW average power. Part of the oscillator output is sent through an etalon and creates Stokes pulses with 100 mW average power and 1.7 ps duration. We demonstrate SRS microscopy at a 30-μs pixel dwell time with high chemical contrast, signal-to-noise ratio in excess of 45 and no need for balanced detection, thanks to the favorable noise properties of the bulk solid-state system. Cw seeding intrinsically ensures low spectral drift. We discuss its application to chemical contrast microscopy of freshly prepared plant tissue sections at different vibrational bands.

@article{SteinleKumar16, abstract = {We introduce an extremely simple and highly stable system for stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscopy. An 8-W, 450-fs Yb:KGW bulk oscillator with 41 MHz repetition rate pumps an optical parametric amplifier, which is seeded by a cw tunable external cavity diode laser. The output radiation is frequency doubled in a long PPLN crystal and generates 1.5-ps long narrowband pump pulses that are tunable between 760 and 820 nm with >50 mW average power. Part of the oscillator output is sent through an etalon and creates Stokes pulses with 100 mW average power and 1.7 ps duration. We demonstrate SRS microscopy at a 30-μs pixel dwell time with high chemical contrast, signal-to-noise ratio in excess of 45 and no need for balanced detection, thanks to the favorable noise properties of the bulk solid-state system. Cw seeding intrinsically ensures low spectral drift. We discuss its application to chemical contrast microscopy of freshly prepared plant tissue sections at different vibrational bands.}, added-at = {2021-02-23T13:35:46.000+0100}, author = {Steinle, Tobias and Kumar, Vikas and Floess, Moritz and Steinmann, Andy and Marangoni, Marco and Koch, Claudia and Wege, Christina and Cerullo, Giulio and Giessen, Harald}, biburl = {https://puma.ub.uni-stuttgart.de/bibtex/2b57e0d8ad7f8c83c7e0a591e2adb2d8b/andy.steinmann}, doi = {10.1038/lsa.2016.149}, interhash = {c352ed9a39cbbce7c7f6b63f1e752fe6}, intrahash = {b57e0d8ad7f8c83c7e0a591e2adb2d8b}, journal = {Light: Science & Applications}, keywords = {myown}, month = apr, number = 10, pages = {e16149}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, timestamp = {2021-02-23T13:06:52.000+0100}, title = {Synchronization-free all-solid-state laser system for stimulated Raman scattering microscopy}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/lsa.2016.149}, volume = 5, year = 2016 }