NKT PHOTONICS A/S

Disclosed is an end-cap assembly for a hollow core optical fiber, comprising: an elongated and hollow glass ferrule comprising: a first ferrule-part with a first ferrule-end, and a second ferrule-part with a second ferrule-end, wherein the first ferrule-end configured to be sealed, and wherein the second ferrule-end is configured to receive a hollow core optical fiber, and wherein the second ferrule-part is configured to fix the hollow core optical fiber.

A coherent anti-stokes Raman scattering apparatus for imaging a sample includes an optical output; an optical source arranged to generate a first optical signal at a first wavelength; and a nonlinear element arranged to receive the first optical signal, where the nonlinear element is arranged to cause the first optical signal to undergo four-wave mixing on transmission through the nonlinear element such that a second optical signal at a second wavelength and a third optical signal at a third wavelength are generated, wherein an optical signal pair including two of the first, second and third optical signals is provided to the optical output for imaging the sample.

A hollow core photonic crystal fiber (PCF) including an outer cladding region and seven hollow tubes surrounded by the outer cladding region. Each of the hollow tubes is fused to the outer cladding to form a ring defining an inner cladding region and a hollow core region surrounded by the inner cladding region. The hollow tubes are not touching each other but are arranged with distance to adjacent hollow tubes. The hollow tubes each have an average outer diameter d 2 and an average inner diameter dl, wherein d 1 /d 2 is equal to or larger than about 0.8. Also, a laser system.

A radio frequency, RF, signal generator including an arbitrary waveform generator, AWG, operative to generate an RF signal including at least one pulse pair, each the pulse pair including a first pulse and a second pulse, wherein each the pulse pair has an RF signal amplitude envelope configured to compensate for an optical amplifier non-uniform gain response in the time domain.

A delivery fiber assembly suitable for delivering broad band light and including a delivery fiber and a connector member. The delivery fiber has a length, an input end for launching light and a delivery end for delivering light. The delivery fiber includes along its length a core region and a cladding region surrounding the core region wherein the cladding region includes a cladding background material having a refractive index N bg and a plurality of microstructures in the form of inclusions of solid material having refractive index up to N inc and extending in the length of the longitudinal axis of the delivery fiber, wherein N inc <N bg . The plurality of inclusions in the cladding region is arranged in a cross-sectional pattern comprising at least two rings of inclusions surrounding the core region.

Disclosed is a tunable laser device, comprising: a tunable fiber laser and a laser-control module, wherein: the tunable fiber laser is configured to generate laser light having a center wavelength controlled by one or more Bragg grating(s) in a first fiber, and the laser-control module is configured to receive at least a portion of the laser light generated by the tunable fiber laser, to generate a stabilizing control-signal and to feed the control-signal back to the tunable fiber laser for stabilizing the center wavelength, and the laser-control module comprises a wavelength discriminating element comprising an etalon having one or more etalon-resonance(s), wherein the etalon is formed by one or more Bragg grating(s) in a second fiber, such that the etalon-resonances(s) are controlled by the one or more Bragg grating(s) in the second fiber.

A supercontinuum source including a pump light source arranged to emit pump light and a nonlinear fiber having a core arranged to receive the pump light. The supercontinuum includes infrared wavelengths generated in the nonlinear fiber from the pump light. The nonlinear fiber has a dispersion profile including a zero dispersion wavelength, a positive peak value at a peak wavelength longer than the zero dispersion wavelength, a minimum value of dispersion at a minimum wavelength longer than the peak wavelength. The pump light is arranged to include substantial energy at one or more preferred pump wavelengths which are 10 nm longer than the zero dispersion wavelength or more. Also, a supercontinuum pump source including a nonlinear fiber having a core including a fluoride glass and having a core diameter smaller than 7 μm, where the fiber has a numerical aperture of more than 0.26.

An optical pulse generator arranged to generate an initial sequence of optical pulses having an initial inter-pulse period; and an optical pulse burst formation apparatus including: an interleaving stage to receive an initial sequence of optical pulses having an initial inter-pulse period, including: an optical splitter to power split received optical pulses, thereby generating a first and second replica sequences of optical pulses; a first optical arm to receive the first replica sequence, having a first optical path length; and a second optical arm to receive the second replica sequence, having a second optical path length, different to the first optical path length by a path length difference; and an optical combiner arranged to combine the first replica sequence of pulses and the second replica sequence of delayed pulses to form an output sequence of optical pulse bursts.

An optical pulse source including: a first laser configured to output laser light at a first wavelength; a second laser configured to output laser light at a second wavelength; optical modulation apparatus configured to apply amplitude modulation to a first one of the laser light at the first wavelength or the laser light at the second wavelength to form first laser light pulses; optical amplification apparatus configured to amplify the first laser light pulses and a second one of the laser light at the first wavelength or the laser light at the second wavelength; and optical frequency conversion apparatus configured to perform optical frequency conversion using the first laser light pulses and the second one of the laser light at the first wavelength or the laser light at the second wavelength to form output laser light pulses at a third wavelength, shorter than the first wavelength and the second wavelength.

A light source, including: a pulse generator for providing an initial sequence of light pulses, the initial sequence of light pulses including an initial number of light pulses within a predetermined time period, first and second optical arms, for propagating, respectively, first and second sequences of light pulses, each derived from the initial sequence of light pulses, wherein the first optical arm includes a first manipulator configured to generate the first sequence of light pulses from the initial sequence of light pulses, wherein the light source includes a nonlinear optical element arranged to receive the first sequence of light pulses or the second sequence of light pulses, and an optical switch arranged to switch that either the first sequence of light pulses or the second sequence of light pulses is received by the nonlinear optical element.