Patent ID: 11971535
Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, A BODY CORPORATE
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 2:
3. The optical imaging device according to claim 2, wherein the source of radiation comprises
a continuous wave diode laser coupled to an intensity modulator to provide pulsed radiation;
a phase modulator coupled to the continuous wave diode laser to receive the pulsed radiation and to spectrally broaden the pulsed radiation to form spectrally broadened pulsed radiation, the spectrally broadened pulsed radiation having a temporal pulse width;
a dispersion compensation element coupled to receive the spectrally broadened pulsed radiation from the phase modulator and to narrow the temporal pulse width of the spectrally broadened pulsed radiation to form temporally narrowed pulsed radiation, the temporally narrowed pulsed radiation having a temporal pulse width; and
a section of optical fiber coupled to the dispersion compensation element to receive the temporally narrowed pulsed radiation and configured to narrow the temporal pulse width of the temporally narrowed pulsed radiation through nonlinear broadening.