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Double-Clad Antiresonant Hollow-Core Fiber and Its Comparison with Other Fibers for Multiphoton Micro-Endoscopy.

Authors :
Szwaj, Marzanna
Davidson, Ian A.
Johnson, Peter B.
Jasion, Greg
Jung, Yongmin
Sandoghchi, Seyed Reza
Herdzik, Krzysztof P.
Bourdakos, Konstantinos N.
Wheeler, Natalie V.
Mulvad, Hans Christian
Richardson, David J.
Poletti, Francesco
Mahajan, Sumeet
Source :
Sensors (14248220). Apr2024, Vol. 24 Issue 8, p2482. 17p.
Publication Year :
2024

Abstract

Label-free and multiphoton micro-endoscopy can transform clinical histopathology by providing an in situ tool for diagnostic imaging and surgical treatment in diseases such as cancer. Key to a multiphoton imaging-based micro-endoscopic device is the optical fiber, for distortion-free and efficient delivery of ultra-short laser pulses to the sample and effective signal collection. In this work, we study a new hollow-core (air-filled) double-clad anti-resonant fiber (DC-ARF) as a high-performance candidate for multiphoton micro-endoscopy. We compare the fiber characteristics of the DC-ARF with a single-clad anti-resonant fiber (SC-ARF) and a solid core fiber (SCF). In this work, while the DC-ARF and the SC-ARF enable low-loss (<0.2 dBm−1), close to dispersion-free excitation pulse delivery (<10% pulse width increase at 900 nm per 1 m fiber) without any induced non-linearities, the SCF resulted in spectral broadening and pulse-stretching (>2000% of pulse width increase at 900 nm per 1 m fiber). An ideal optical fiber endoscope needs to be several meters long and should enable both excitation and collection through the fiber. Therefore, we performed multiphoton imaging on endoscopy-compatible 1 m and 3 m lengths of fiber in the back-scattered geometry, wherein the signals were collected either directly (non-descanned detection) or through the fiber (descanned detection). Second harmonic images were collected from barium titanate crystals as well as from biological samples (mouse tail tendon). In non-descanned detection conditions, the ARFs outperformed the SCF by up to 10 times in terms of signal-to-noise ratio of images. Significantly, only the DC-ARF, due to its high numerical aperture (NA) of 0.45 and wide-collection bandwidth (>1 µm), could provide images in the de-scanned detection configuration desirable for endoscopy. Thus, our systematic characterization and comparison of different optical fibers under different image collection configurations, confirms and establishes the utility of DC-ARFs for high-performing label-free multiphoton imaging-based micro-endoscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
14248220
Volume :
24
Issue :
8
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
Sensors (14248220)
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
176902207
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/s24082482