Investigation of fiber Bragg grating as a spectral notch shaper for single-pulse coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate compact and efficient single-pulse coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy (CARS) via spectral notch shaping implemented with a fiber Bragg grating. We show that a fiber Bragg grating can serve as a narrowband notch filtering component on a 90nm broadband femtosecond pulsed laser without spectral distortion. Finally, we obtain CARS spectra of various samples in the fingerprint region of molecular vibrations. This scheme has potential for compact implementations of all-fiber single-pulse multiplex CARS due to its compatibility with fiber optics.