All-solid-state ultrafast lasers facilitate multiphoton excitation fluorescence imaging

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1051-1065

  Wokosin, David L ^a   Centonze, Victoria ^a   White, John G ^a   Armstrong, David ^b   Robertson, Gordon ^b   Ferguson, Allister I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SOLID STATE LASERS; TECHNOLOGY;

LASER SCANNING CONFOCAL IMAGING; MULTIPHOTON EXCITATION FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; OPTICAL SECTIONING FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 0030358935     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/2944.577337     Document Type: Article

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