Multicore fiber with integrated fiber Bragg gratings for background-free Raman sensing

In the last years a variety of fiber optic Raman probes emerged, which are only partly suited for in vivo applications. The in vivo capability is often limited by the bulkiness of the probes. The size is associated with the required filtering of the probes, which is necessary due to Raman scattering...

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Veröffentlicht in:Optics express 2012-08, Vol.20 (18), p.20156-20169
Hauptverfasser: Dochow, Sebastian, Latka, Ines, Becker, Martin, Spittel, Ron, Kobelke, Jens, Schuster, Kay, Graf, Albrecht, Brückner, Sven, Unger, Sonja, Rothhardt, Manfred, Dietzek, Benjamin, Krafft, Christoph, Popp, Jürgen
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Zusammenfassung:In the last years a variety of fiber optic Raman probes emerged, which are only partly suited for in vivo applications. The in vivo capability is often limited by the bulkiness of the probes. The size is associated with the required filtering of the probes, which is necessary due to Raman scattering inside the fibers. We employed in-line fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) as notch filter for the collection path and integrated them in a novel type of Raman probe. Multicore singlemode fibers (MCSMF) were designed and drawn integrating 19 singlemode cores to achieve better collection efficiency. A Raman probe was assembled with one excitation fiber and six MCSMF with inscribed FBGs as collection fibers. The probe was characterized regarding Raman background suppression, collection efficiency, and distance dependence. First Raman measurements on brain tissue are presented.
ISSN:1094-4087
1094-4087
DOI:10.1364/OE.20.020156