Widely tunable visible source using pulsed cascaded raman fiber laser
Abstract
We demonstrated a visible pulsed cascaded Raman fiber laser (CRFL) source continuously tunable from 530 to 750 nm, surpassing the wavelength tunable range of existing visible pulsed CRFL. The widely tunable CRFL is operated at ~10–70 kHz pulsed repetition rate and ~40–200 ns pulse duration, making it suitable for photoacoustic microscopy applications. The laser source is generated by frequency doubling a pulsed CRFL continuously tunable from 1.0 to 1.6 µm.