Flexible pulse-stretching for a swept source at 2.0  μm using free-space angular-chirp-enhanced delay

Abstract

Dispersive pulse-stretching at 2.0 μm has long been hindered by the high intrinsic optical loss from conventional dispersive media. Here a flexible pulse-stretching technique at 2.0 μm is demonstrated over a broad bandwidth with large-scale dispersion and low intrinsic optical loss. The technique employs the newly proposed pulse-stretching scheme, namely, free-space angular-chirp-enhanced delay. Both normal and anomalous temporal dispersion (up to $\pm 500\mathrm{ps}/\mathrm{nm}$) with low intrinsic loss ($<6\mathrm{dB}$) over a spectral bandwidth of $\sim 84\mathrm{nm}$ at 2.0 μm is obtained with low nonlinear effects. Based on this method, an optical wavelength-swept source at 2.0 μm is realized and applied to spectrally encoded imaging at a line scan rate of $\sim 19\mathrm{MHz}$, proving the potential of this pulse-stretching technique for continuous single-shot measurements at the 2.0 μm wavelength regime, particularly for optical microscopy and spectroscopy.

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